Book 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
Scott O. Lilienfeld
is a Professor of Psychology at Emory University. He is a recipient of
the 1998 David Shakow Early Career Award for Distinguished Contributions
to Clinical Psychology from Division 12 (Society for Clinical
Psychology) of the APA, past president of the Society for a Science of
Clinical Psychology, and a Fellow of the Association for Psychological
Science. Dr. Lilienfeld's principal areas of research are personality
disorders, psychiatric classification and diagnosis, pseudoscience in
mental health, and the teaching of psychology.
Steven Jay Lynn is a Professor of Psychology at the State
University of New York at Binghamton. He is past President of the
APA's Division of Psychological Hypnosis, and the recipient of the
Chancellor's Award of the SUNY for Scholarship and Creative
Activities. His major areas of research include hypnosis and memory.
John Ruscio is an Associate Professor of Psychology at The
College of New Jersey. His scholarly interests include quantitative
methods for psychological research and the characteristics of
pseudoscience that distinguish subjects within and beyond the fringes
of psychological science.
Barry Beyerstein (the late) was Professor of Psychology at
Simon Fraser University and chair of the British Columbia Skeptics
Society. He was Associate Editor of the Scientific Review of
Alternative Medicine, and he co-authored many articles in the
Skeptical Inquirer and professional journals.
