50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology

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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

50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology: Shattering Widespread Misconceptions about Human Behavior serves as an educational guide to critical thinking about psychology.

Contained inside are 11 chapters categorizing the 50 into subtopics of psychology.

This book discusses a number of most widespread and believed myths of popular psychology – a type of psychology that is not based on scientifically proven facts but are well known by the general public – and helps people learn how identify false claims.

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