Everyday Psychology
Discover why you make irrational choices, misremember yesterday's events, and copy the crowd. Learn the core principles behind daily human behavior through relatable, real-world examples.
Like Duolingo, but for Everyday 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 Decoding Your Choices and Memories and Navigating Social Dynamics. It starts from scratch.
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Key ideas in Everyday Psychology
- Thinking carefully through every single choice burns immense mental energy
- Heuristics act as cognitive shortcuts that trade perfect accuracy for speed
- Routine daily choices rely on 'good enough' decisions rather than deep analysis
- The first number you see establishes an anchor that frames every following comparison
- Seeing a high starting price makes any lower follow-up price look cheap, regardless of the jacket's true worth
- Anchoring occurs automatically before you can consciously evaluate reasonable value
- The mind estimates how likely something is based on how vividly or easily memories of it come to mind
- Rare, dramatic events like plane crashes make vivid memories that feel frequent and urgent
- Common, routine dangers like car accidents feel less threatening because they lack dramatic emotional recall
- The mind eagerly spots and remembers events that confirm an existing theory
- Evidence that contradicts your belief gets ignored, dismissed as a fluke, or forgotten
- Confirmation bias operates by filtering what you pay attention to in real time
- The psychological pain of a loss feels roughly twice as powerful as the pleasure of an equivalent gain
- Loss aversion makes people avoid fair 50/50 bets unless the potential reward substantially outweighs the risk
- Losing what you already hold triggers an immediate protective, emotional reaction
- Memory pieces together fragments of the past anew each time you recall them
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 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 is the main job of a mental shortcut, known as a heuristic?
Get it right to open this lesson and 11 more in the app.
Where Everyday Psychology takes you
- 1
Decoding Your Choices and Memories
- Spotting Your Brain's Shortcuts
- Seeing Through Faulty Memory
- 2
Navigating Social Dynamics
- Misreading Other People
- Handling Group Influence
2 sections · 4 units · 12 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
You pick the voice
Everyday 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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