Podcast Categories: Social Sciences

From the genetics of X-Men to the physics behind Iron Man and sociology of Sex and the City, Emory faculty apply their insight on some of Hollywoods biggest blockbusters hits.

“Psychology has a long past but a short history” wrote psychologist Herman Ebbinghaus. This podcast covers the major philosophical, scientific, religious, and cultural trends that contributed to the formation of modern psychology. Digging deeply into the past, ably guided by the lifelong work of Dr. C. George Boeree, this podcast explores both Western and Eastern thinking on human psychology, offers insightful interpretations, and tells the fascinating story of psychology’s long past right up to it’s current history.

Students of philosophy, religion, psychology, and history will find ideas that bring psychology to life in the mind of the listener. (Listeners can email Professor Todd at ToddDaniel@MissouriState.edu)

(PSYC 110) What do your dreams mean? Do men and women differ in the nature and intensity of their sexual desires? Can apes learn sign language? Why can’t we tickle ourselves? This course tries to answer these questions and many others, providing a comprehensive overview of the scientific study of thought and behavior. It explores topics such as perception, communication, learning, memory, decision-making, religion, persuasion, love, lust, hunger, art, fiction, and dreams. We will look at how these aspects of the mind develop in children, how they differ across people, how they are wired-up in the brain, and how they break down due to illness and injury.

This class was recorded in Spring 2007.

The field of psychology – the study of what it means to be human – is a fascinating scientific inquiry into the behaviors and mental processes of human beings. You are invited to explore topics like consciousness, memory, sensation, perception, cognition, motivation, and personality. This entertaining and informative presentation is based upon a college-level Introduction to Psychology course and is intended for people who want to better understand themselves and the world around them.

(Listeners can email Professor Todd at ToddDaniel@MissouriState.edu)

EERIE Radio is a paranormal podcast that stands for ‘Endeavor for Esoteric Research and Investigation into the Enigmatic’. The hosts interview top researchers in the paranormal field and have a few laughs along the way. “Life is paranormal. Listen. Learn. Laugh.”

California Southern University psychology lectures are presented free of charge to the public in the spirit of scholarship and academic achievement. Lectures are held at CalSouthern’s Irvine, California campus and students, alumni and the public are invited to attend.

This course introduces students to a variety of approaches that have been developed for thorough premarital counseling. The course also teaches students a conceptual model for understanding the variety of ways marriages can become dysfunctional, and introduces them to short-term methods that can be used when those kinds of problems develop.

This course introduces the statistical methods used to analyze data about society with an emphasis on the application of those methods. This course will help you to be a more informed and critical reader of academic research, public opinion polling, and advertisement claims that present statistical evidence.

Textbook: ⁠Statistics: Unlocking the Power of Data⁠ (https://bit.ly/statsbooklock5)

Students can use the Promotion Code “LOCK5” for a 10% discount

Instructors can request a free Digital Evaluation Copy

Lecture slides and course material can be obtained by emailing bradrfulton@gmail.com

Our multidisciplinary, quantitative lens can help deepen our understanding of perhaps the most complex of complex systems, namely, human behavior. The emergence, persistence, and demise of social institutions and their co-evolution with distinctive human behaviors – such as altruistic cooperation, out-group hostility and adaptive learning – are typically overlooked in standard economic and other behavioral science models. In line with the well-established scientific tradition of the Institute, this research is characterized by (a) its trans-disciplinary nature, (b) its use of nonlinear dynamical systems to study the explicit out-of-equilibrium dynamics of the relevant processes, (c) and sustained interaction between mathematical modeling and well-defined empirical case studies and problems of potentially great contemporary practical relevance.

NOTE: Please excuse the production quality of some of our older videos. They were transferred from our video tape archive.