Everyday Human Psychology
Discover why you make impulse choices, follow the crowd, and misread other people. Unpack the cognitive shortcuts and social instincts that silently govern daily life.
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: 12 levels across 2 sections, about 24 minutes end to end, roughly 5 days at five minutes a day. It moves through Seeing Your Brain's Shortcuts and Navigating Social Currents. It starts from scratch.
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Key ideas in Everyday Human Psychology
- System 1 operates automatically and involuntarily without conscious effort
- System 2 demands active focus and physiological effort like pupil dilation and concentration
- The brain keeps System 2 in reserve to conserve metabolic energy
- Things that are easier to read or hear feel mentally comfortable (cognitive ease)
- The brain routinely mistakes ease of processing for factual truth and safety
- Repetition and high contrast reduce mental strain, triggering uncritical acceptance
- Deliberate reasoning (System 2) drains a finite pool of mental stamina
- When cognitive energy runs low, the brain defaults to impulsive autopilot decisions
- Self-control in financial and dietary choices relies directly on active, non-depleted deliberate reasoning
- System 1 silently swaps an intractable, analytical question for a simpler emotional one
- The thinker usually remains unaware that the original question was never actually answered
- Autopilot operates silently; speaking or writing out the detailed steps forces System 2 activation
- A deliberate pause breaks the immediate momentum of intuitive snap judgments
- Explaining reasoning aloud demands working memory and exposes logical gaps autopilot ignores
- The first number you see acts as a mental anchor point
- Subsequent value judgments adjust outward from the initial anchor rather than assessing objective worth
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.
What happens when you switch over to System 2 to solve a tricky problem like 17 × 24?
Get it right to open this lesson and 11 more in the app.
Where Everyday Human Psychology takes you
- 1
Seeing Your Brain's Shortcuts
- Spotting Fast and Slow Brain Modes
- Defusing Hidden Decision Traps
- 2
Navigating Social Currents
- Decoding Social Influence and Group Pull
- Interpreting Other People's Behavior
2 sections · 4 units · 12 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
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- Where it goes
- No sign-up to start. Connect your Tomo account and your streak carries on in the app.
You pick the voice
Everyday Human Psychology is taught in the The Bestie style: your friend who just gets it. Want a different feel? In the app you can spin up the same topic in any of Tomo's teaching styles. Same facts, totally different vibe.
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