An Introduction to Psychology

Familiarize yourself with the basic theories and methods found in psychology and learn how they can play a big role in your daily life and your relationships with loved ones.

Young Latino woman feeling frustrated, sitting on a bed in lotus position with hand placed on her face.
What Is the Stress-Vulnerability Model?
person looking distracted
What Is Attention Suppression?
Senior Hispanic woman with adults daughters walk in park
What Is Family Stress Theory?
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Signs and Symptoms of Paraphilic Disorders
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What is Prosopagnosia?
person slumped over their desk and stressed
What Is a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy?
Woman looking at herself in the bathroom mirror
Self-Objectification in Women
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What to Know About the DSM-5-TR
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What Are the 5 Stages of Memory?
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What Is the Effect of Long-Term Fandom?
teen girls laying on bed
What Is the Impact of Media on Girls' Mental Health?
kid playing a video game
What Is the Impact of Violent Media on Mental Health?
woman watching the news
How Does Propaganda Work?
Rear view of young Asian mother with a shopping cart grocery shopping for baby products in a supermarket. She is standing in front of the baby product aisle and have no idea which product to choose from
What Is the Illusion of Choice?
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Why Do We Enjoy Horror Movies?
Asian chinese women crying watching sad sentimental drama movie in cinema movie theater wiping teardrop with tissue paper.
Why Do We Like Sad Stories?
Woman with red hair looking on screen of her mobile phone.
Why We Worship Celebrities and How It Impacts Our Mental Health
During a counseling session, a serious female counselor gives important advice to a male patient.
What Is an Employee Assistance Program (EAP)?
child watching tv
Can Children Understand the Difference Between Fantasy and Reality?
BIPOC woman looking at her phone
Uses and Gratifications Theory in Media Psychology?
black woman reading on her bed
What Is Narrative Transportation?
Hand of man pointing remote control at working television screen
What Is Cultivation Theory in Media Psychology?
Handsome businessman using smart phone at home. Male professional is looking at mobile phone. He is working late
What Is Media Literacy?
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What Is a Parasocial Relationship?
Human hand holding remote control changing Channels with television set.
What Is Media Psychology?
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The Four Fear Responses: Fight, Flight, Freeze, and Fawn
A young girls meets with a therapist to discuss her struggles, addictions and mental well being
What Is Adolescent Psychology?
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What Is Regression in Psychology?
Cut out hearts with different moral principles written on them.
Types of Moral Principles and Examples of Each
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What Is Associative Memory?
woman looking in the mirror
Gilligan's Theory of Moral Development
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What Is the Illusion of Control?
Two happy women talking through the window
What Is the Proximity Principle in Psychology?
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What Is Pop Psychology?
Walking direction on asphalt
The Difference Between Morals and Ethics
Hands of woman discovering a treasure chest full of photographs and holding an old black and white photograph of a smiling woman standing on a balcony in Rome in 1960s.
How Context-Dependent Memory Works
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What Is Pathologizing?
Hispanic couple holding hands in car
What Is Parallel Processing in Psychology?
surfing
What Is Adrenaline?
Shot of a young couple having an argument while sitting on their couch at home
What Is Emotional Attachment and Is Yours Healthy?
Smiling parents looking at autistic son while sitting on sofa in living room
Neurodiversity and What It Means to Be Neurodiverse
Upset woman sitting on sofa alone at home
What Is Guilt Tripping?
Unhappy Teenage Girl Being Gossiped About By Peers
What Is Triangulation in Psychology?
Teenage girl in her bedroom on devices, showing a range of emotions including happiness and saddness
Why Do People Bully?
person using a smartphone
What Are Conspiracy Theories?
Talk therapy vs talking to a friend
How Is Talk Therapy Different From Talking to a Friend?
Features that psychologists have found to be indicators of beauty
What Scientists Have to Say about Facial Beauty
Cancel Culture Concept
The Mental Health Effects of Cancel Culture
Man sitting down reading a book.
What Is Conventional Wisdom?
male gaze
What Is the Male Gaze?
A frustrated person watching two friends having a conversation
The Mental Health Effects of Holding a Grudge
A diverse group of people having a conversation together
What Is Prejudice?
Hands holding
What Is an Empath and How Do You Know If You Are One?
Woman being defensive at work.
What Is Defensiveness?
Man looking sad while looking out the window.
The Psychology of Shame
Men prepare flowers for lovers. But his lover is with other people for others. Love concept
Do You Believe In White Lies?
Depressed young man
10 Cognitive Distortions That Can Cause Negative Thinking
Two friends talking.
How Does Reverse Psychology Work?
Woman standing with man behind her.
What Is Misogyny?
the chameleon effect
What Is the Chameleon Effect?