Everyday Human Psychology
Discover the hidden mental currents that shape how you think, decide, and interact. Learn to catch sneaky cognitive shortcuts, decode social pressures, and understand why people behave the way they do.
Like Duolingo, but for Everyday Human Psychology. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
A short one: 11 levels across 2 sections, about 22 minutes end to end, roughly 4 days at five minutes a day. It moves through Spotting the Mind's Default Shortcuts and Decoding Social Currents and Friction. It starts from scratch.
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Key ideas in Everyday Human Psychology
- Vivid, memorable events are recalled much more easily than dry statistics
- The mind equates ease of recall with high probability or danger
- Driving carries a higher statistical risk than commercial flying despite feelings
- Confirmation bias selectively logs events that support an existing belief and filters out neutral or opposing facts
- People actively seek sources that tell them they are already right
- Noticing only frustrating coincidences (like red lights) reinforces a belief like 'I have bad luck'
- Losing something hurts roughly twice as much as gaining the identical item feels good
- Loss aversion makes people take irrational steps to prevent even small losses
- One standout positive trait (like attractiveness or charisma) creates an unearned positive aura across unrelated skills
- The brain fills in unknown traits with positive assumptions to match a favorable first impression
- Gut feelings and emotional impulses make the choice first
- Conscious logic acts like an internal spokesperson to justify the choice after it happens
- People mistake their post-purchase justifications for the actual cause of the decision
- Conflicting actions and values create uncomfortable psychological friction
- It feels less painful to twist an existing belief than to admit a personal failing
- The mind quietly rewrites its view of the situation to protect self-esteem
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 Human 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.
When something springs to mind instantly, what does your brain automatically assume?
Get it right to open this lesson and 10 more in the app.
Where Everyday Human Psychology takes you
- 1
Spotting the Mind's Default Shortcuts
- Catching Your Mind's Default Shortcuts
- Intercepting Defensive Rationalizations
- 2
Decoding Social Currents and Friction
- Resisting Silent Social Pressures
- Reframing Interpersonal Conflict
2 sections · 4 units · 11 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
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