The science of the mind, seen through the ordinary moments you live
This collection takes the ground of a first university course in psychology and turns it around: instead of starting from the textbook's chapter order, it starts from the moments of ordinary life — a forgotten name, a snap judgement, a habit you cannot break — and shows the science underneath. We rebuild the core of introductory psychology as short, self-contained articles you can read in any order, keeping the rigour while dropping the semester-shaped padding. You finish with a working map of how the mind perceives, remembers, decides, feels, and connects with others.
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Why what you see, hear, and notice is a construction, not a recording.
Why what you see, hear, and notice is a construction, not a recording.
From the forgetting curve to false memories — how memory helps you and lies to you.
From the forgetting curve to false memories — how memory helps you and lies to you.
Rewards, imitation, and automation — the behaviour you cannot quit and cannot build.
Rewards, imitation, and automation — the behaviour you cannot quit and cannot build.
From confirmation bias to the framing effect — the shortcuts and traps thinking runs on.
From confirmation bias to the framing effect — the shortcuts and traps thinking runs on.
Treat emotion as a signal, not a nuisance — what fear, anger, and joy are telling you.
Treat emotion as a signal, not a nuisance — what fear, anger, and joy are telling you.
Intrinsic vs extrinsic drive, goal setting, and the stress curve — why you persist or quit.
Intrinsic vs extrinsic drive, goal setting, and the stress curve — why you persist or quit.
First impressions, conformity, obedience, and bias — how the social world rewrites your judgement.
First impressions, conformity, obedience, and bias — how the social world rewrites your judgement.
From what newborns bring to what stays stable in old age — how the mind changes with age.
From what newborns bring to what stays stable in old age — how the mind changes with age.
Neurons, sleep, hormones, and popular myths — how the body carries the mind.
Neurons, sleep, hormones, and popular myths — how the body carries the mind.
What counts as disorder, why depression and anxiety are not weakness, how talking helps, when to ask.
What counts as disorder, why depression and anxiety are not weakness, how talking helps, when to ask.
“A rigorous, readable introduction to psychology organised around everyday life.”
The collection covers the full introductory span — perception, memory, emotion, social behaviour, development, and the brain — without the semester-shaped padding of a textbook. Articles stand alone, so a reader can start at the moment they actually wonder about. The treatment of memory, bias, and mental health is especially careful.
Nano College takes the ground of a university course and turns it into short, self-contained pieces you can actually finish. We keep the substance the course covers and the rigour it insists on; what we leave out is the padding that only exists to fill a semester.