Waterstones 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology
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Price: £20.95
Brand: Waterstones
Description: 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.
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Merchant: Waterstones
Product ID: 9781405131124
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ISBN: 9781405131124
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Rating: 5
Review: I wish this were compulsory reading for secondary students. Practical critical thinking skills can be learned from this, as well as it being a good read.
Author: John Brewer
Rating: 1
Review: Notwithstanding an extensive bibliography of almost 2,000 sources this book is principally one of entertainment and I agree with a previous reviewer that some of the busts are just as shallow as the myths being attacked. Indeed, the bust of myth #32 at p.161 is perhaps deceptively so: Herrnstein's & Murray’s remarks in “The Bell Curve” about heritability of IQ in particular were not expressed as applying to heritable conditions in general and contrary to the simplistic suggestion advanced in this book anyone afflicted with phenylketonuria is going to have to struggle with excluding rather more than Diet Coke (if indeed they drink it at all) from their diet in order to reduce the risk of contracting this irreversible condition. I liked postscript #6 of 10 of the authors’ favourite “difficult to believe, but true” examples, that those of us who hold a pencil with our teeth find cartoons funnier than those of us who hold it with our lips: very useful.
