50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology
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gptkb:book
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debunk psychological myths
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gptkb:Scott_O._Lilienfeld
gptkb:Steven_Jay_Lynn Barry L. Beyerstein John Ruscio |
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gptkb:United_States
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common misconceptions in psychology
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non-fiction
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50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology
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978-1-4051-3112-4
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English
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ebook |
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Vaccines cause autism
All effective psychotherapies require insight into the unconscious People with schizophrenia have multiple personalities Alcohol kills brain cells Children are less suggestible than adults Criminal profiling is highly accurate Dreams have symbolic meaning Eyewitness testimony is highly reliable Handwriting reveals personality Hypnosis is a unique trance state Intelligence tests are biased against minorities Lie detector tests are accurate Memory works like a tape recorder Mental illness is a sign of weakness Mental illness is caused by bad parenting Most mentally ill people are violent Most people experience a midlife crisis Most people go through stages of grief in order Most people with autism have special talents Most people with depression are always sad Most people with mental illness are violent Older adults are less happy than younger people Opposites attract People are either left-brained or right-brained People only use 10% of their brains People repress traumatic memories People with mental illness cannot recover Playing Mozart to babies boosts intelligence Polygraph tests are infallible Schizophrenia means split personality Subliminal messages can persuade people Therapists can reliably recover repressed memories Therapy is only for people with severe problems Visual perception is passive Low self-esteem is a major cause of psychological problems Full moons increase crime and psychiatric admissions |
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352
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2009
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gptkb:Wiley-Blackwell
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psychology
popular psychology |
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educators
general public students |
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gptkb:Scott_Lilienfeld
gptkb:Scott_O._Lilienfeld |
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7
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