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Communication and Conflict in Families and Couples
This UCLA course discusses the psychology of marital discord and family disruption.
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How the Internet is Changing Your Brain
Given the ubiquity of Google, is memory obsolete? Academic Earth dares to ask, how is such easy access to information affecting our brains as we rely less and less on memory and more on technology?
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Eating Disorders and Obesity (Guest Lecture by B. Timothy Walsh)
Guest lecturer Dr. Timothy Walsh offers a glimpse into current psychiatric understanding of anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorder. He takes students inside the psychology of an eating disorder and the medical and behavioral complications that patients may experience. Dr. Walsh then explores the issues behind diagnosing, treating, and understanding these disorders from […]
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Open Courseware
American Transcendentalism (I)
Featuring discussions of Ralph Waldo Emerson; ontological individualism and the state of nature; Alexis de Tocqueville; Immanuel Kant; philosophical idealism; Unitarianism; Transcendentalism; Lockean psychology; and Neo-Platonism.
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Open Courseware
Behavioural Finance
In this undergraduate course, Professor Steve Keen exposes students to the emerging field of market analysis that examines financial decision making through the lens of cognitive and behavioral psychology.
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The Neuroscientific Challenge to Criminal Responsibility
Stephen J. MorseFerdinand Wakeman Hubbell Professor of LawProfessor of Psychology and Law in PsychiatryUniversity of Pennsylvania Law SchoolThe Neuroscientific Challenge to Criminal Responsibility
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Open Courseware
Durkheim and Social Facts
Foundations of Modern Social Thought (SOCY 151) Durkheim understood life sciences as divided into three branches: biology, which is interested in the body, psychology, which deals with the personality, and sociology, which deals with collective representations. In The Rules of Sociological Method, Durkheim attempted to provide methodological rules and guidance for establishing social facts […]
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Open Courseware
Freud on Sexuality and Civilization
Foundations of Modern Social Thought (SOCY 151) Freud’s brand of critical theory adds important dimensions; he argues that we can better understand our consciousness through the process of psychoanalysis—the talking cure, dream work, etc—and we can cure ourselves through this process as well. We discuss Freud’s early days in Vienna developing psychoanalysis as a clinical […]
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Open Courseware
Contemporary Communitarianism, part II
In this lecture, Professor Shapiro delves into the nuances of MacIntyre’s argument, focusing specifically on his Aristotelian account of human psychology. It has two features: (1) man’s nature is inherently teleological or purposive, and (2) human behavior is fundamentally other-directed, in that a person’s happiness is conditioned upon the experience of others as it relates […]
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Neuroscience Lab
Psychology 116: Neuroscience Lab is a laboratory experience exploring various topics in behavioral neuroscience. Dr. William Grisham is a Professor from UCLAs Department of Physiological Science. Since July of 1996, Dr. Grisham coordinated and taught upper division laboratories in Interdepartmental Program in Neuroscience and Biopsychology majors for UCLA. Furthermore, he participated in selection and development […]
https://academicearth.org/courses/neuroscience-lab/