Kyle Smith

Dr. Kyle Smith is a social psychologist with more than 20 years of teaching experience at the college level. Passionate about helping students become better learners, he’s looking forward to helping you upgrade your study habits and improve your academic performance. Currently, he lives in Massachusetts with his family and his evil cat Pike.

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Better Learning (Coursera)

Many people report engaging in study habits that are not very effective or very efficient. How do we know what strategies are best? Cognitive psychologists have been doing research to ask this very question for multiple decades. It turns out that many strategies that people report using are not [...]

Less Stress, Better Health (Coursera)

Stress is a natural part of the human experience. However, stress can also be damaging to people’s physical and psychological health. This course provides an introduction to stress in general and then explores the psychological, physiological, and social consequences of stress. It ends with information on how you can [...]

Learning Through Cognitive Psychology (edX)

Many people report engaging in study habits that are not very effective or very efficient. How do we know what strategies are best? Cognitive psychologists have been doing research to ask this very question for multiple decades. It turns out that many strategies that people use extensively are not [...]