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Psychology 100 - Introduction to Psychology

Syllabi

USC - Farver - Fall 2020

Additional Resources

The following are concerned with themes and topics related to the course. Available for extra credit, geeking out, and diving deep.

Books

​Behave: The Biology of Humans At Our Best and Worst  - Robert M Sapolsky
Blitzed: Drugs in The Third Reich - Norman Ohler
Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick 
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky 
Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why  by Laurence Gonzales 
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
Eichmann in Jerusalem - Hannah Arendt
Enlightenment Now - The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism and Progress - Steven Pinker
Explaining Culture: A Naturalistic Approach - Dan Sperber
From Bacteria to Bach and Back - The Evolution of Minds  - Daniel C Dennett
Games People Play - Eric Berne
Giving the Devil His Due - by Michael Shermer
God : A Biography - Jack Miles
Guns, Germs, and Steel - Jared Diamond
Homo Deus - A Brief History of Tomorrow - Yuval Noah Harari
How Emotions Are Made  - Lisa Feldman Barrett
How Humans Evolved - Boyd, R., Silk, J. B.
How To Talk So Teens Will Listen and Listen So Teens WIll Talk - Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish
Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Love and Limerence - Dorothy Tennov
Love is a Story : A New Theory of Relationships - Robert J Sternberg
Man and His Symbols - Carl Jung
Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief - Jordan B Peterson
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
People Reading - Dr. Ernst G. Beier and Evans G. Valens
Psychological Science 6th edition (2018) - Gazzaniga, M.S.
Psychological Warfare in the Intifada -Ron Schleifer
Psychology. OpenStax. - Rosie M Speilman - openstax.org/details/books/psychology
Psychology and Religion - Carl Jung
Research in psychology : Methods and Design (8th edition) - Goodwin, C.J., & Goodwin, K.A. (2017)
Re-visioning Psychology - James Hillman
Sapiens - A Brief History of Humankind - Yuval Noah Harari
The Act of Will - Robert Assagioli
The Archetypes and The Collective Unconscious - Carl G Jung
The Blank Slate  - Steven Pinker
The Coddling of The American Mind - Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
The Cultural Nature of Human Development - Barbara Rogoff
The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. and E.B.  White 
The Gulag Archipelago - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 
The Happiness Hypothesis- Jonathan Haidt
The Interview: An Ethnographic Approach - Jonathan Skinner
The New Psychology of Love - Robert Sternberg and Karin Weis
The Origins and History of Consciousness - Erich Neumann
The Question of God : C.S. Lewis and Sigmuend Freud Discuss God, Love, Sex, and The Meaning of LIfe - Dr. Armand M. Nicholi, Jr. 
The Redemptive Self - Stories Americans Live By - Dan P Mcadams
The Righteous Mind - Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion - Jonathan Haidt
The Roots of Religion - Roger Trigg and Justin L. Barrett
The Secret of our Success - Joseph Henrich
The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins
The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century by Steven Pinker
The True Believer - Eric Hoffer
Through a Window - Jane Goodall 
Why We Love - Helen Fisher
Why Would Anyone Believe in God? - Justin Barrett
Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers - The Acclaimed Guide to Stress , Stress Related Diseases, and Coping  - Robert M Sapolsky

TV Show Episodes/Movies

A Beautiful Mind (2001)

A Clockwork Orange (1971)

A Dangerous Method (2011)

Altered states (1980)

As Good As It Gets (1997)

Battle Royale (2000)

Black Swan (2010)

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

Experimenter (2015)

Fight Club (1999)

Full Metal Jacket (1987)

Girl, Interrupted (1999)

Good Will Hunting (1997)

Identity (2003)

Inception (2010)

Inside Out (2015)

It’s Kind of a Funny Story (2010)

Jacob’s Ladder (1990)

Limitless (2011)

Memento (2001)

Mr. Robot (2015 - 2019)

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

Rain Man (1988)

Regarding Henry (1991)

Reign Over Me (2007)

Silver Linings Playbook (2012)

Still Alice (2014)

The Deer Hunter (1978)

The Experiment (2010)

The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015)

The Truman Show (1998)

The Wave (1981)

Documentaries

A Class Divided (1985)

Best Boy (1979)

Boy Interrupted (2009)

Ghosts of Abu Ghraib (2007)

Journey Into Self (1969)

Kim Peek: The Real Rain Man (2006)

Lesson Plan (2010)

Matter of Heart (1986)

Stephen Fry: The Secret LIfe of the Manic Depressive (2006)

Course Relevant Videos

Crash Course

Is Psychology a Science?

Freudian Slips

Stockholm Syndrome

Reverse Psychology

Is Freud still relevant?

Emotional Intelligence 

Brain Symmetry

Attraction and Familiarity

Maslow's Relevancy 

The Bystander Effect

Misattribution

IKEA Effect?

Emotions Compilation

ADHD and Sex

Hemispatial Neglect

Asch Conformity Experiment

Self-Serving Bias

Gaslighting

Attraction - Questions on Love

Group Synchrony

Biological Morality

Social Distancing

Applied Psychology

Staring Babies

Opinion Bias

Attraction: Celebrity Crushes

Attraction - What's your type?

The Psychology of Ghosting

Hindsight Bias

Dated Psychology: Nude Photo Studies

Depression Symptoms

IQ Testing

Talking to Yourself

Fear

Defining Disorders

Dyslexia

OCD

Tourette Syndrome

Alcoholism

Sleeping Sickness

Cute Aggression 

Synesthesia

Factitious Disorder

Winter Blues

Dissociation Identity Disorder

Psychology of Hoarding

Narcissistic Personality Disorder

Postpartum Depression

Depression and Anxiety

Eating Disorders

Schizophrenia

More on Depression

Alice in Wonderland

Reading and Rhythm

The Doorway Effect

Antisocial Personality Disorder

Dreamy Vision

Foreign Accent Syndrome

Postpartum Disorder

Bipolar Disorder

Anosognia

False Memories

Flashbulb Memories

Photographic Memory

Psychology and Ancient Viruses

Forgetfulness

More on Memory

Alien Abductions and Memory

Foreign Languages and Alcohol

Remembering Dreams

Repressed Memories

EMDR Therapy

Eyewitness Testimony and Memory

Memory and Bike Riding

Typos and Memory

Storing Memories

Short Clips

Is Moral Disgust Just Bad Evolution? | Robert Sapolsky

TED-esque Lectures

The biology of our best and worst selves | Robert Sapolsky

The psychology of evil | Philip Zimbardo

How reliable is your memory? | Elizabeth Loftus

The surprising science of alpha males | Frans de Waal

How language shapes the way we think | Lera Boroditsky

A simple way to break a bad habit | Judson Brewer

The pattern behind self-deception | Michael Shermer

Who are you, really? The puzzle of personality | Brian Little

How your brain decides what is beautiful | Anjan Chatterjee

Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality | Anil Seth

How Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google manipulate our emotions | Scott Galloway

The brain-changing benefits of exercise | Wendy Suzuki

Steven Pinker: Human nature and the blank slate

Paul Bloom: The origins of pleasure

Why our IQ levels are higher than our grandparents' | James Flynn

The riddle of experience vs. memory | Daniel Kahneman

Are athletes really getting faster, better, stronger? | David Epstein

Why you should define your fears instead of your goals | Tim Ferriss

Paul Bloom: Can prejudice ever be a good thing?

Is the world getting better or worse? A look at the numbers | Steven Pinker

The brain in love | Helen Fisher

Why teens confess to crimes they didn't commit | Lindsay Malloy

How to have better political conversations | Robb Willer

You aren't at the mercy of your emotions -- your brain creates them | Lisa Feldman Barrett

Jonathan Haidt: Religion, evolution, and the ecstasy of self-transcendence

Why people believe weird things | Michael Shermer

Jonathan Haidt: The moral roots of liberals and conservatives

The strange politics of disgust | David Pizarro

Why Aren't We Awesomer? | Michael Neill | TEDxBend

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