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Decision Making in a Complex World: Using Computer Simulations to Understand Human Behaviour (FutureLearn)

Understand how humans make decisions by exploring illustrative videos, short articles, and simulations on your own computer. Gain insights into the social phenomena around making choices. People use social cues to help them make decisions in diverse situations. This information is often scarce and uncertain but is also sometimes [...]

Understanding Human Behaviour: Introduction to Game Theory and Shared Resources (FutureLearn)

Explore the issues humans face when sharing and cooperating, and use game theory, models, and simulations to identify solutions. ​​Expand your understanding of social sciences. This four-week course will help you explore why sharing goods or tasks is difficult. You’ll enrich your understanding of the problems people have when [...]

Research Methods in Psychology: Using Animal Models to Understand Human Behaviour (FutureLearn)

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Research Methods in Psychology: Using Animal Models to Understand Human Behaviour (FutureLearn)
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Learn how animal models can help us learn about human psychology, cognitive skills, and the neurobiology of learning and memory. Discover how animal research has helped us understand how we perceive and learn. Did you know that we can learn a lot about humans through animal research? Animal models [...]

People, Networks and Neighbours: Understanding Social Dynamics (FutureLearn)

Learn why social processes seem so unpredictable and understand better the basics of social dynamics. Explore a new way of approaching questions about social behaviour. This three-week course will help you understand why social processes seem so unpredictable and understand better the basics of social [...]

Future Robots. Towards a Robotic Science of Human Beings (edX)

Learn Robots as a new science for the understanding of human beings and the affects of robotics in the real world. Following historic human achievements in steam power, electricity, and digital information, Robotics is now considered by many to be the fourthindustrial revolution. This course explores robotics not simply [...]

Adaptive Markets: Financial Market Dynamics and Human Behavior (edX)

A completely new way of thinking about financial markets, institutions, and innovation that reconciles human behavior with market efficiency using concepts from evolutionary biology, cognitive neuroscience, and artificial intelligence. Half of all Americans have money in the stock market, yet economists can’t agree on whether investors and markets are [...]

Why Experience Matters: Qualitative Research (FutureLearn)

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Why Experience Matters: Qualitative Research (FutureLearn)
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Explore the methods and tools qualitative researchers use to understand human behaviour and solve social problems. What attitudes and beliefs drive human behaviour? Qualitative research explores people’s stories and lived experiences to help us understand their perceptions, motivations and behaviour. It uses personalised research methods such as interviews, focus [...]

Big Data: Measuring and Predicting Human Behaviour (FutureLearn)

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Big Data: Measuring and Predicting Human Behaviour (FutureLearn)
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Join us to explore how the vast amounts of data generated today can help us understand and even predict how humans behave. We increasingly rely on networked computer systems and smart cards to support our everyday activities, and everything we do generates data – whether buying bread at the [...]

The Mind is Flat: The Shocking Shallowness of Human Psychology (FutureLearn)

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The Mind is Flat: The Shocking Shallowness of Human Psychology (FutureLearn)
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Make better personal and professional decisions and consider the psychological dimension to key ethical and political choices. What are the forces shaping human behaviour? How do we think and decide? This course, from Professor Nick Chater and Warwick Business School, explores the origins of human rationality and [...]

Intro to Psychology (Udacity)

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Intro to Psychology (Udacity)
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The Science of Thought and Behavior. Introduction to Psychology is a journey through all of the major psychological concepts and principles. The knowledge gained from this course will allow students to critically evaluate psychological research and have a more in-depth understanding of human thought and [...]