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Understanding the Mysteries of Human Behavior

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Gain insight into puzzling aspects of human behavior with these thought-provoking lectures on such psychological mysteries as happiness, personality, self-esteem, and more.

Syllabus

  • 01: Solving Psychological Mysteries
  • 02: How Did Human Nature Evolve?
  • 03: Where Do People's Personalities Come From?
  • 04: How Can Siblings Be So Different?
  • 05: Why Do People Need Self-Esteem-Or Do They?
  • 06: Why Do We Have Emotions?
  • 07: What Makes People Happy?
  • 08: Why Are So Many People So Stressed Out?
  • 09: Why Do Hurt Feelings Hurt?
  • 10: Why Do We Make Mountains out of Molehills?
  • 11: Why Is Self-Control So Hard?
  • 12: Why Do We Forget?
  • 13: Can Subliminal Messages Affect Behavior?
  • 14: Why Do We Dream?
  • 15: Why Are People So Full of Themselves?
  • 16: Do People Have Psychic Abilities?
  • 17: Why Don't Adolescents Behave like Adults?
  • 18: How Much Do Men and Women Really Differ?
  • 19: Why Do We Care What Others Think of Us?
  • 20: Why Are Prejudice and Conflict So Common?
  • 21: Why Do People Fall In-and Out of-Love?
  • 22: What Makes Relationships Succeed or Fail?
  • 23: Why Do People Blush?
  • 24: A Few Mysteries We Can't Explain Yet
  • By This Professor

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Mark Leary

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