50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology uses popular myths as a vehicle for helping students and laypersons to distinguish science from pseudoscience.
- Uses common myths as a vehicle for exploring how to distinguish factual from fictional claims in popular psychology
- Explores topics that readers will relate to, but often misunderstand, such as ‘opposites attract’, ‘people use only 10% of their brains’, and ‘handwriting reveals your personality’
- Provides a ‘mythbusting kit’ for evaluating folk psychology claims in everyday life
- Teaches essential critical thinking skills through detailed discussions of each myth
- Includes over 200 additional psychological myths for readers to explore
Contains an Appendix of useful Web Sites for examining psychological myths - Features a postscript of remarkable psychological findings that sound like myths but that are true
- Engaging and accessible writing style that appeals to students and lay readers alike
| ISBN-13: | 9781444360745 |
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| Publisher: | Wiley |
| Publication date: | 09/15/2011 |
| Series: | Great Myths of Psychology |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | E-book |
| Pages: | 352 |
| Sales rank: | 641,426 |
| File size: | 1 MB |
