Day 01
Big Five Personality — The OCEAN Dimensions
Stability vs Change · Fit Effects · MBTI Critique
Day 02
Attachment Theory — Your Relational Operating System
Four Types · Adult Attachment · Parenting · Self-Repair
Day 03
Defense Mechanisms — The Maturing of the Mind's Immune System
Vaillant Hierarchy · Projection · Sublimation · Mature Defenses
Day 04
CBT — Can Changing Your Thoughts Change Your Life?
Cognitive Triangle · 10 Distortions · Thought Records · ACT
Day 05
IFS Internal Family Systems — You Are Not One, You Are Many
3 Parts · 8C Self · 6F Process · Parts Language
Day 06
Self-Compassion — Could You Give Yourself What You Give a Friend?
3 Components · SCS Scale · Tender ↔ Fierce
Day 07
Vulnerability & Boundaries — Taking Off the Armor Takes Courage
Power of Vulnerability · Shame vs Guilt · Clear is Kind · Perfectionism
Day 08
Trauma & the Body — The Body Remembers What You Forgot
Keeps the Score · Polyvagal (Contested) · Window of Tolerance · EMDR/SE
Day 09
Emotional Granularity — Emotions Aren't Triggered, They're Constructed
Constructionism · Core Affect · Labeling · Context & Culture
Day 10
Perfectionism & Procrastination — You're Not Lazy, You're Avoiding a Feeling
Two Faces · Procrastination = Emotion Regulation · Self-Handicapping · Self-Compassion
Day 11
Gottman's Marriage Lab — What Long-Lasting Couples Get Right
Four Horsemen · Bids · Repair · 5:1 & PSO
Day 12
Friendship Psychology — Why Adult Friendships Fade
Adult Decline · Dunbar's Number · Weak Ties · Maintenance
Day 13
Depression & Anxiety — Not Weakness, but Treatable States
Clinical vs Subclinical · Evidence-Based Tx · PHQ-9/GAD-7 · When to Seek Help
Day 14
Attention & ADHD — Not a Lack of Attention, but a Different Self-Regulation System
Adult Recognition · Executive Function · Meds vs Behavioral · Externalize
Day 15
Self-Esteem vs Self-Efficacy — Liking Yourself and Getting Things Done Are Two Different Things
The Distinction · Four Sources · Esteem Movement Failed · Collective Efficacy
Day 16
The Psychology of Habits — Willpower Is a Myth, Context Is the Lever
The Habit Loop · Situationism · Tiny Habits · Identity
Day 17
The Psychology of Motivation — Why Rewards Often Kill Passion
Three Needs · Overjustification · The Continuum · Autonomy-Support
Day 18
Flow — When Focus Becomes Effortless
Optimal Experience · The Flow Channel · Engineering Flow · The Dark Side
Day 19
Stress & Adaptation — Stress Doesn't Hurt You, Not Switching It Off Does
Allostasis · HPA Axis · Three-Region Cost · Engineering Recovery
Day 20
ACEs — Childhood Doesn't "Pass." It Moves Into the Body
Felitti Study · Toxic Stress · Resilience & PCEs · Reparenting
Day 21
Can Personality Change — The Evidence for Stability, and for Change
Two Stabilities · Maturity Principle · Intervention Evidence · Attractor Mechanism
Day 22
Classic Group Psychology — Conformity, Obedience, and an Overrated "Situation Myth"
Asch Conformity · Milgram Obedience · SPE Debunked · Attribution Error
Day 23
Bias & Stereotypes — Shortcuts in the Mind, Echoes in the System
Implicit Bias · Contact Hypothesis · Structural Bias · Replication Crisis
Day 24
Consciousness — How the Brain Lights Up "I Am Here"
Global Workspace · Integrated Information · DMN & the Self · Hard Problem
Day 25
Psychology of Death — The Science of Living Toward Death
Terror Management · Yalom's Concerns · Time Horizons · Dual Process Grief
Day 26
Aging & Meaning — The Other Half of the Truth
Integrity vs Despair · Generativity & Narrative · Science of Wisdom · SOC
Day 27
A Map of Therapy Schools — Hundreds of Methods, Really Just Four Families
Four Families · Dodo Bird Verdict · Third Wave & Mindfulness · Matching
Day 28
How to Find a Therapist — The Right Relationship Beats the Right School
Credential Soup · Working Alliance · Insurance & Access · Rupture & Repair
Day 29
The Willpower Controversy — How a Popular Theory Fell in the Replication Crisis
Rise & Fall of Ego Depletion · Motivation & Belief · Self-Control Paradox · What Works
Day 30
Repairing the Parent Relationship — Emotionally Immature Parents & Reparenting
Four Types · Healing Fantasy · Reparenting · Boundaries & Grief
Day 31
Culture & Mind — How Much of Your "Self" Was Written In by Culture
Independent vs Interdependent Self · Analytic vs Holistic · WEIRD Samples · Frame Switching
Day 32
Evolutionary Psychology — A Brain Built for Another World
Adaptationist Lens · Evolutionary Mismatch · Mate Psychology · Kin Selection & Altruism
Day 33
Positive Psychology — The Science of Happiness and Its Honest Limits
PERMA Model · Character Strengths · Hedonic Adaptation · Limits of the Science
Day 34
Awe & Transcendence — The Moment the "Self" Shrinks
Functions of Awe · The Small Self · Self-Transcendent Experiences · Nature & Awe Walks
Day 35
Envy, Jealousy & Comparison — How Someone Else's Ruler Measures Your Pain
Social Comparison · Envy vs Jealousy · Relative Deprivation · Antidotes to Comparison
Day 36
The Science of Gratitude — Not a Platitude, but Trainable Attention
Intervention Evidence · Gratitude in Relationships · The Hedonic Treadmill · Limits & Boundaries
Day 37
The Psychology of Loneliness — A Signal the Body Takes Seriously
Loneliness vs Solitude · Health Cost · Connection Paradox · Evidence-Based Intervention
Day 38
Curiosity & Boredom — Two Signal Lights of Attention
Neuroscience of Curiosity · Information-Gap Theory · Function of Boredom · Mind-Wandering
Day 39
The Psychology of Money — How Cash Really Meets a Good Life
Money & Happiness · Mental Accounting · Scarcity Mindset · Spending & Meaning
Day 40
Moral Psychology — Right and Wrong Are Felt, Not Reasoned
Moral Foundations · Intuition First · The Trolley Problem · Moral Luck
Day 41
Political Psychology — Fights About Positions Are Fights About Identity
Dispositional Roots · Motivated Reasoning · Tribal Identity · Cross-Partisan Dialogue
Day 42
Conspiracy Beliefs — Not Stupidity, But Need
Three Needs · Pattern & Agency · Motivated Reasoning · Inoculation
Day 43
Persuasion & Resisting Manipulation
Cialdini's Six · Reactance Theory · Pre-Suasion · Mental Defense
Day 44
The Reconstruction of Memory
Memory Isn't a Recording · False Memory · Flashbulb Memory · Eyewitness Testimony
Day 45
Dreams & Sleep
Functions of Dreaming · Lucid Dreams · Nightmares & Trauma · Sleep & Emotion
Day 46
Language & Thought
Linguistic Relativity Revisited · Bilingual Cognition · Inner Speech · Naming & Emotion
Day 47
The Psychology of Gender
Truths & Myths of Difference · Stereotype Threat · Socialization · Gender Identity
Day 48
The Psychology of Creativity
Divergent vs Convergent · Incubation · Domain & Creativity · The Madness Myth
Day 49
The Psychology of Time
Time Perception · Temporal Discounting · Time & Culture · Procrastination's Time Dimension
Day 50
The Psychology of the Self
Self-Concept · Multiple Selves · Narrative Identity · The Authenticity Paradox
Day 51
Emotion Regulation Strategies
Reappraisal vs Suppression · Acceptance · Applied Granularity · Regulatory Flexibility
Day 52
The Science of Resilience
Myths of Resilience · Growth vs PTSD · Protective Factors · Trainability
Day 53
Animal & Comparative Psychology
Animal Emotion · Cross-Species Cognition · The Anthropomorphism Trap · Evolutionary Continuity
Day 54
Environmental & Space Psychology
Environment & Mood · Nature's Restoration · Crowding & Stress · Healing Spaces
Day 55
Music & Emotion
Why Music Moves Us · Chills · Music & Memory · Music Therapy Evidence
Day 56
Psychology in the Digital Age
Social Media & Mental Health · Comparison & FOMO · The Attention Economy · Digital Detox
Day 57
Groups & Conformity, Deeper — Smarter or Dumber Is a Matter of Structure
Group Polarization · Bystander Effect · Deindividuation · Wisdom vs Groupthink
Day 58
Self-Control & Environment Design — High Self-Control Isn't Better Resisting
Delayed Gratification Revisited · Temptation Bundling · Habit vs Willpower · Choice Architecture
Day 59
Sensation & Perception — What You See Is the Brain's Best Guess
The Construction of Perception · Illusions · Multisensory Integration · Selective Attention
Day 60
Meaning & Existential Psychology — Meaning Isn't Found, It's Assembled
Sources of Meaning · Existential Anxiety · Mortality Salience · Logotherapy Evidence
Day 61
PTSD & Complex Trauma — Not Too Much Memory, but Memory Never Filed
Diagnosis & Neuroscience · C-PTSD · Evidence-Based Treatment · Disorder or Normal Response