Everyday Psychology
Discover the hidden mental shortcuts and social dynamics that shape your daily life. Spot cognitive traps, build lasting personal habits, and navigate social situations with insight.
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: 11 levels across 2 sections, about 22 minutes end to end, roughly 4 days at five minutes a day. It moves through Reading Your Own Mind and Reading Social Currents. It starts from scratch.
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Key ideas in Everyday Psychology
- The brain conserves energy by running routine, familiar tasks on automatic pilot
- Fast thinking happens effortlessly without conscious control
- Deliberate, slow reasoning only kicks in when the mind hits an error, obstacle, or unfamiliar friction
- The mind estimates how common or dangerous an event is based on how easily an example pops into memory
- Vivid, emotionally intense events are recalled far faster than statistical data
- Availability bias causes people to overestimate rare, dramatic dangers while ignoring common ones
- The first number introduced in a situation serves as a psychological anchor
- Subsequent judgments of value or fairness are made relative to that initial anchor rather than objective worth
- Even completely arbitrary numbers drag estimates toward themselves
- Confirmation bias filters incoming observations to favor what you already suspect
- The brain naturally discounts or forgets evidence that conflicts with an existing belief
- People interpret ambiguous situations as proof of their initial theory
- Willpower is an exhaustible cognitive resource that reliably fails by the end of the day
- Adding physical barriers (friction) like storing snacks in an inconvenient place reduces consumption far better than restraint
- Environmental cues dictate behavior more strongly than personal motivation when fatigued
- Habits are driven by a three-part neurological loop: cue, routine, and reward
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.
Which of these is a sign of fast thinking at work?
Get it right to open this lesson and 10 more in the app.
Where Everyday Psychology takes you
- 1
Reading Your Own Mind
- Catching Your Brain's Automatic Shortcuts
- Engineering Real Behavioral Change
- 2
Reading Social Currents
- Decoding Group Behavior and Social Pressure
- Communicating for Influence and Connection
2 sections · 4 units · 11 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
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Add Tomo to ChatGPT- What to ask
- “Make me a Tomo course on black holes.” “Turn this chat into a Tomo course.”
- What you get
- Quick questions with instant feedback, hearts and stars, ready to play in about a minute.
- 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 Psychology is taught in the Professor style: clear, structured, thorough. 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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