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Know Thyself - The Value and Limits of Self-Knowledge: The Unconscious

Instructor: Mitchell Green

What you'll learn

Gain an appreciation of the relation of methods of learning about oneself that do not depend on introspection.

Become familiar with contemporary research in experimental social psychology, philosophy, and neuroscience into the emotions and the unconscious.

Understand the role of affect in decision making, and self-deception.

Be able to identify and analyse unconscious mechanisms motivating own and other people's actions.

Skills you'll gain

Social Justice

Scientific Methods

Critical Thinking

Emotional Intelligence

Psychology

Human Learning

Self-Awareness

Mental Health Diseases and Disorders

Child Development

Decision Making

There are 6 modules in this course

--- This course was created by a partnership between The University of Edinburgh and Humility & Conviction and Public Life Project, an engaged research project based at the University of Connecticut and funded by a generous grant from the John Templeton Foundation.

The Freudian Unconscious

Freud's legacy

The Adaptive Unconscious

Rationality and Emotions

Final assessment

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