Psychobabble and Biobunk: Using Psychological Science to Think Critically About Popular Psychology

3. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-0-205-01591-7
Verlag: Pearson

Buch, Englisch, 112 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 184 g

This revised and updated handbook features a selection of essay-style book reviews by Carol Tavris , written for the Times Literary Supplement, The Chronicle of Higher Education, American Scientist, and The New York Times Book Review. These reviews apply psychological research and principles of scientific thinking. They aim to show how critical thinking can help people assess arguments promoted in the popular culture, and how to separate those that are scientifically sound from those based on “psychobabble”—pop-psych notions dressed up in fancy, sciency-sounding language.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tavris, Carol

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Thinking Critically–and Why We Often Don’t

1. “Why won’t they admit they’re wrong? And other skeptics’ mysteries” by Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson

Personality, Motivation, and Development

2. , by Malcolm Gladwell

3. , by Gary Cross

4. by Jean Mercer

5. by Deborah Blum

6. , by Richard Layard; by Paul Martin; and by Adam Phillips

7. by Barbara Ehrenreich

8. by Judith Rich Harris

9. by Daniel Nettle

10. “Are Girls As Mean As They Say They Are?” (review essay)

Psychotherapy and the Scientist-Practitioner Gap

11. by Alice Miller

12. by Don DeNevi & John Campbell

13. by Richard McNally

14. by Eva Moskowitz

15. by Aaron T. Beck

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by Herb Kutchins and Stuart A. Kirk

17. by T. M. Luhrmann

Research Methods and Social Issues

18. , by Ellen Ruppel Shell

19. by David Plotz

20. , by Joanna Bourke

21. , by Brett Kahr

Über Autor(innen)

Carol Tavris earned her Ph.D. in the interdisciplinary program in social psychology at the University of Michigan, and as a writer and lecturer she has sought to educate the public about the importance of critical and scientific thinking in psychology. In addition to this text, she and Carole Wade have written Psychology; Psychology in Perspective; and The Longest War: Sex Differences in Perspective. Dr. Tavris is also coauthor, with Elliot Aronson, of Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts; and author of The Mismeasure of Woman and Anger: The Misunderstood Emotion. She has written on psychological topics for a wide variety of magazines, journals, edited books, and newspapers, some of which have been collected in Psychobabble and Biobunk: Using psychological science to think critically about popular psychology. Dr. Tavris lectures widely on topics involving science vs. pseudoscience in psychology and psychiatry, on writing about science for the public, and many other subjects of contemporary interest. She has taught in the psychology department at UCLA and at the Human Relations Center of the New School for Social Research in New York. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and a charter Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science; a member of the editorial board of the APS journal Psychological Science in the Public Interest; and a member of the international advisory board of the Institute for Science and Human Values.