Top Coursera Psychology Courses by Reddit Upvotes
Reddit is a social media and news aggregation website that ranks content based on a voting system. People worldwide post content (usually links, but also original content), and other users can “upvote” or “downvote” posts, pushing the most interesting content to the top.
It’s a place where you can find groups of like-minded people. Reddit calls these groups subreddits, and they cover different topics, including niche interests, politics, hobbies, and thousands of other topics people want to talk about.
Since its launch in 2005, the site has become one of the most popular social media sites with millions of monthly active users.
We've conducted analyses to find the best of Coursera from the depths of Reddit. This analysis has been conducted over 2.7 million Reddit upvotes.
Table of Contents
Top Psychology courses
Buddhism and Modern Psychology The Dalai Lama has said that Buddhism and science are deeply compatible and has encouraged Western scholars Princeton University | 10 reddit posts 145 mentions |
Everyday Parenting Everyday Parenting gives you access to a toolkit of behavior-change techniques that will make your typical day Yale University | 1 reddit posts 120 mentions |
Psychological First Aid Learn to provide psychological first aid to people in an emergency by employing the RAPID model: Johns Hopkins University | 2 reddit posts 20 mentions |
Moralities of Everyday Life How can we explain kindness and cruelty? Where does our sense of right and wrong come from? Why do people so Yale University | 3 reddit posts 21 mentions |
A Life of Happiness and Fulfillment What are the determinants of a happy and fulfilling life? This is surely one of life’s biggest Indian School of Business | 1 reddit posts 25 mentions |
Mind Control Never in the history of humanity have so many people been feeling intense anxiety related to COVID-19 and University of Toronto | 1 reddit posts 26 mentions |
Introduction to Psychology This course will highlight the most interesting experiments within the field of psychology, discussing the University of Toronto | 0 reddit posts 20 mentions |
Social Psychology Ever wonder why people do what they do? This course—which includes more than $1,000 of video and reading Wesleyan University | 2 reddit posts 21 mentions |
Questionnaire Design for Social Surveys This course will cover the basic elements of designing and evaluating questionnaires University of Michigan | 0 reddit posts 9 mentions |
Positive Psychology This course discusses research findings in the field of positive psychology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 1 reddit posts 6 mentions |
Psychology of Popularity The level of popularity you experienced in childhood and adolescence is still The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 0 reddit posts 4 mentions |
The Bilingual Brain This course explores the brain bases of bilingualism by discussing literature relevant to differences in University of Houston | 0 reddit posts 7 mentions |
Unethical Decision Making in Organizations This course 'Unethical decision making in organizations : A seminar on the dark side of the force' will University of Lausanne | 2 reddit posts 3 mentions |
Positive Psychology Learn how to incorporate resilience interventions into your personal and professional life with Dr University of Pennsylvania | 0 reddit posts 13 mentions |
Mindware Most professions these days require more than general intelligence University of Michigan | 0 reddit posts 9 mentions |
Introduction to Human Behavioral Genetics Behavioral genetic methodologies from twin and adoption studies through DNA analysis will be described University of Minnesota | 0 reddit posts 5 mentions |
Schizophrenia The main goal of this class is to gain an introductory exposure to the nature of the psychiatric disorder Wesleyan University | 0 reddit posts 3 mentions |
Positive Psychology Learners discover how apply to research methods to their study of Positive Psychology University of Pennsylvania | 0 reddit posts 1 mentions |
Gender and Sexuality What is sex? What is gender? What is sexuality? What do we mean by LGBTQIA? How are these concepts University of Pittsburgh | 0 reddit posts 2 mentions |
Positive Psychology Dr University of Pennsylvania | 0 reddit posts 3 mentions |
Understanding Memory Welcome to Understanding Memory Wesleyan University | 0 reddit posts 1 mentions |
Introduction to Psychology What are people most afraid of? What do our dreams mean? Are we natural-born racists? What makes us happy? What Yale University | 0 reddit posts 18 mentions |
Neurolinguistics This course introduces the key principles and goals of modern neurolinguistics Saint Petersburg State University | 0 reddit posts 2 mentions |
Resilience in Children Exposed to Trauma, Disaster and War How do children overcome hazardous experiences to succeed in life? What can be done to protect young University of Minnesota | 0 reddit posts 1 mentions |
Introduction to Self-Determination Theory Self-determination theory (SDT) is an empirically based theory of motivation and psychological University of Rochester | 0 reddit posts 1 mentions |
Foundations of Mindfulness This course provides a broad overview of the fundamental concepts, principles, and practices of mindfulness Rice University | 0 reddit posts 1 mentions |
Our methodology
We conducted this analysis by "ranking things based on social signals"
It's the result of mining Reddit posts and comments. The analysis looked at all (url-based) posts and comment mentions of Coursera courses on Reddit, ranking each course based on Reddit score, and showing each course with its top Reddit mentions.
Course Score is calculated with a slightly modified version of a simple popularity / age calculation.
course_score = sum(mention_scores) / course_age
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