50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology explained

50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology: Shattering Widespread Misconceptions about Human Behavior is a 2009 book written by psychologists Scott O. Lilienfeld, Steven Jay Lynn, John Ruscio, and Barry Beyerstein, and published by the Wiley-Blackwell publishing company.[1]

The book is a guide to critical thinking about psychology.[2] It has 11 chapters categorizing 50 subtopics of psychology.[3] 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.[4] [5] It has received positive reviews from both academic[6] [7] and popular reviewers.[8]

Notes and References

  1. Wiley. "50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology: Shattering Widespread Misconceptions about Human Behavior". September 2009. http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-EHEP002362.html
  2. Korn, J.H. (2010). "Myth busters". Psyccritiques, 55(3),
  3. Web site: 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology: Shattering Widespread Misconceptions about Human Behavior.
  4. Wiley,"50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology: Shattering Widespread Misconceptions about Human Behaviorhttp"://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-EHEP002362.html
  5. Web site: Roy Sugarman, Ph.D. (2010) Metapsychology Online Reviews . 2013-09-16 . 2016-08-16 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160816102823/http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=5609 . dead .
  6. http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/the-mythbusters-of-psychology/ Hall, H. Science-Based Medicine, November 9, 2009
  7. Braithwaite, J., Kinmond, K., Thomson, A., Provost, S., & Luyt, R. (2010). "Review: 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology, Mental Health, Service User Involvement and Recovery, Mental Health, Service User Involvement and Recovery, Personal Tutoring in Higher Education, Teaching Psychology in Higher Education, the Teaching Qualitative Research Methods at Undergraduate Level Dataset Teaching Resource, Tqrmul Working Group. Psychology Learning & Teaching, 9(2), 73–77. http://plj.sagepub.com/content/9/2/73.full.pdf+html
  8. http://health.usnews.com/health-news/family-health/articles/2009/10/13/5-common-pop-psych-myths#comments Lyon, L. U.S. News & World Report, October 13, 2009

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