Workshop overview

Greg Dubord, MD, writes:

When I took Psychology 100 as a UBC undergraduate, I didn’t just learn about psychology—I learned about myself. That experience launched a thirty-year career in medical CBT. This special anniversary workshop curates the thirty research findings that have most profoundly shaped how I think, practise, and live—from classic social psychology experiments to recent breakthroughs in motivation, habit, and self-deception. These are not obscure journal articles; they are the papers that make you see yourself differently.

A preview:

1. Why losses hurt twice as much as gains—and how this shapes every patient decision (Kahneman & Tversky);
2. The ratio that predicts whether a marriage will survive (Gottman & Levenson);
3. How one word can change whether a student tries harder or gives up (Dweck);
4. Why naming your emotion to yourself reduces its intensity within seconds (Lieberman);
5. How a twenty-minute writing exercise about values can close an achievement gap for a full semester (Cohen & Garcia);
6. How conformity pressure can make you deny what your own eyes see (Asch);
7. Why the story you tell about your suffering determines whether it destroys you (Frankl);
8. Why people systematically overestimate how much others notice their embarrassment (Gilovich);
9. How reappraising stress as helpful actually changes your cardiovascular response (Jamieson); and
10. Why people who volunteer are happier—and what that tells us about the anatomy of meaning (Seligman).

There are twenty more where those came from. Each finding gets six minutes: the study, the surprise, and a clinical or personal takeaway you can use the next day.

If you’ve ever suspected that a single psychology course could change your life, this might just be the three-hour version.