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Understand the Mind: 15 Fascinating Psychology Studies (Udemy.com)

Learn About the Human Mind Through the Research in Social Psychological Science

Created by: Andrew Luttrell, Ph.D.

Last updated October 2023

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What you will learn

  • Use psychological research to reach your personal goals and desires
  • Apply psychology to engineer more effective group interactions
  • Consider ways of using real psychological science to solve the big problems of our day
  • Gain insight into simple changes that make big differences in learning, liking, judgment, and perception.

How it compares

Against the other 503 rated Udemy courses in Teaching & Academics on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.4 out of 5higher than 27% of them
  • Reviews3,072#55 of 504 by number of reviews
  • Length2.6 hoursshorter than 62% of them
  • Last updatedOctober 2023more recently than 52% of them

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Course Description

**UPDATE: I just added 3 NEW BONUS VIDEOS to expand on and discuss some of the core experiments.

If you've ever wanted a quick and easy way to know more about people and psychology, this is the course for you! More than 11,000 people have enrolled in my online psychology courses to learn more about the human mind and social behavior. You can be one of them!

Although you could read dense textbooks on psychological research, this simple and engaging course will give you quick access to some of the most interesting and unique studies in psychology.

When you finish this course, you'll have a new appreciation for human behavior, persuasion, and influence, and you'll quickly be able to impress your friends and family with your surprising knowledge of human psychology. Not only that, but you'll know exactly what science behind those findings was!

The studies in this course reveal…

  • how we can persuade someone to do what we want without even providing good persuasive reasons
  • why people started to walk more slowly after solving a few word puzzles
  • why men were more attracted to a woman when they stood on a terrifying bridge
  • why praising some kids for their intelligence vs. their hard work dramatically changed their test scores
  • why people who held a hot cup of coffee instead of an iced coffee automatically started thinking a stranger was especially generous and caring
  • …and much more!

Carefully designed experiments tell us a great deal about the choices we make, the ways we behave, and why we think the way we do. Throughout this course, you'll learn about a bunch of these experiments and see exactly what they say about yourself and the people you meet every day.

I'm a social psychologist myself, and I thought about which studies most interested me early in my education and which studies are my current favorites. I even reached out to my colleagues to ask them what studies have most inspired them and are important for everyone to know about.

This could be the beginning of your new-found interest in psychology. After taking my classes, many of my students have begun pursuing psychology themselves! But even if you just want an easy introduction to psychology, you'll want to check out these fascinating studies now.

So enroll in this fun introductory course and start seeing how simple research in psychology tells us amazing things about human thought and behavior!

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Instructor Details

Andrew Luttrell, Ph.D.

I'm a social psychologist and host of the Opinion Science podcast. My expertise is in the domain of attitudes and persuasion, but I have extensive experience with all corners of the social psychology world. The research in this field is so interesting that I can't help but want to share it! I look forward to the chance to share the world of social psychology with you.

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Reviews

4.4

3,072 ratings on Udemy

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By Tracy Lewis on 5/21/2026

I think that unless you are an psychology major this really was not that interesting to me.

By Ilze Overbeeke on 4/15/2025

Interesting so far. Loved this course. Lecturer has a great way of teaching. Just note: The Holloween resources redirect to https://xoilactvit.cc/. Seems like a bogus website.

By Lubna Khaled-Noveloso on 10/6/2023

Great online course!. Not very long, which makes this course easy to complete in one or two sessions. Only 2.5 hours. I can finish in one evening. The instructor sounds engaging, enthusiastic and very knowledgeable. He explains basic concepts in simple English. Such an enlightening and informative class. GREAT JOB! THANK YOU!

By Alex Bustamante on 9/27/2022

Yes, it was an interesting, light, and engaging introduction to some of the most interesting studies in Social Psychology. The presenter's clarity, tone, and expressions make it a pleasure to watch.

By Melda Ciner on 11/22/2020

I got what I wanted. I felt very encouraged to dive deeper into the researches you covered. Thank you Andrew!

By Ellen Vaught on 11/8/2020

loved this course looking forward to more courses by Andrew Lutrell

By Tony McCurdy on 10/13/2020

Clarity of exposition

By Ramlah Bt Johari on 10/4/2020

Interesting useful information

By Saw Boon Seong on 9/10/2020

Great course

By poonam singh on 9/8/2020

I did enjoy this course, some of them are known to us ...overall its fun

By Stephonie Steinruck on 9/4/2020

This class was very informative

By Alexandra Maria Negrut on 9/2/2020

Great insight into how our actions and thinking can be influenced by all sorts of things that we might never imagine.

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Overall Score : 88 / 100