Everyday Behavioral Psychology
Bridge foundational psychological theory and real-world action by examining how cognitive biases, environment design, and social pressures steer decisions. Learn to diagnose choice environments, neutralize persuasive framing, and navigate group dynamics.
Like Duolingo, but for Everyday Behavioral Psychology. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
A short one: 12 levels across 2 sections, about 24 minutes end to end, roughly 5 days at five minutes a day. It moves through Engineering Decisions and Habits and Navigating Social Influence and Judgment. It assumes you already know the basics.
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Key ideas in Everyday Behavioral Psychology
- Defaults harness status quo bias by sparing the brain effortful System 2 calculation.
- Endorsement effect leads people to treat pre-selected defaults as implied advice.
- Overcoming cognitive inertia requires active executive control to seek alternatives.
- Habit loops run automatically once an environmental cue triggers the motor sequence.
- Physical distance introduces delays that reactivate conscious executive control.
- Relying on conscious willpower alone fails when cognitive resources are depleted.
- The paradox of choice shows large assortments attract attention but paralyze action.
- Evaluating dozens of options rapidly depletes working memory and decision energy.
- Fewer choices reduce counterfactual thinking about the unselected options.
- Visual salience draws immediate bottom-up attention before deliberate goal-setting occurs.
- Eye-level placement exploits standard visual search paths to prompt spontaneous selection.
- Informational warnings rely on top-down processing, which is easily bypassed when hungry.
- Loss aversion causes humans to feel the pain of a loss roughly twice as intensely as an equal gain.
- Opt-out framing establishes immediate psychological ownership of the designated perk.
- Giving up a pre-allocated spot activates regret avoidance, keeping the person enrolled.
- Dopamine neurons phasically fire to predictive cues rather than reward consumption.
You've tried the other tabs
Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.
You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.
One answer, then back to scrolling.
Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.
Tomo gives Everyday Behavioral Psychology the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.
Here's what playing it feels like
A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
Why do people often trust a pre-selected default option on a form?
Get it right to open this lesson and 11 more in the app.
Where Everyday Behavioral Psychology takes you
- 1
Engineering Decisions and Habits
- Choice Architecture and Micro-Friction
- Reward Schedules and Behavior Loops
- 2
Navigating Social Influence and Judgment
- Framing, Anchoring, and Valuation
- Group Dynamics and Social Compliance
2 sections · 4 units · 12 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
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