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Scott O. Lilienfeld,Steven Jay Lynn,John Ruscio,Barry L. Beyerstein | 352 pages | 07 Jul 2010 | John Wiley and Sons Ltd | 9781405131124 | English | Chicester, United Kingdom Skip to search form Skip to main content You are currently offline. Some features of the site may not work correctly. Lilienfeld Published Psychology. Save to Library. Create Alert. Launch Research Feed. Share This Paper. Top 3 of 58 Citations View All Public skepticism of psychology: why many people perceive the study of human behavior as unscientific. Lilienfeld The American psychologist Simons, C. Chabris PloS one Distinguishing science from pseudoscience in school psychology: science and scientific thinking as safeguards against human error. Lilienfeld, Rachel J. Ammirati, Michal David Journal of school psychology Citation Type. Has PDF. Publication Type. More Filters. Public skepticism of psychology: why many people perceive the study of human behavior as unscientific. Open Access. View 1 excerpt, cites background. Research Feed. Prevalence of misconceptions, dogmas, and popular views about giftedness 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology: Shattering Widespread Misconceptions About Human Behavior intelligence: a case from Turkey. Why many clinical psychologists are resistant to evidence-based practice: root causes and constructive remedies. A test of contemporary misconceptions in psychology. Refutation texts: Overcoming psychology misconceptions that are resistant to change. A new measure of psychological misconceptions: Relations with academic background, critical thinking, and acceptance of paranormal and pseudoscientific claims. Related Papers. Abstract 58 Citations Related Papers. By clicking accept or continuing to use the site, you agree to the terms outlined in our Privacy PolicyTerms of Serviceand Dataset License.

You are currently using the site but have requested a page in the site. Would you like to change to the site? Scott O. His major areas of research include hypnosis and memory. 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 L. He was Associate Editor of the Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine, and he co-authored many articles in the Skeptical Inquirer and professional journals. Request permission to reuse content from this site. Accordingly, the book is a much-needed antidote to the avalanche of misinformation that masquerades as psychology and should be required reading for anyone with a passing interest in psychology or, for that matter, the human condition. It is written in a clear, lively and often humorous manner. I enjoyed revisiting discussions of some old favourites and realised being introduced to some new myths along the way. The real message of the book are in promoting the value of applying scientific reasoning to everyday problems, and that things are not necessarily true, just because someone says so. This is an excellent vehicle for illustrating why science is important and how science works This book would suit educators involved in study skills and critical thinking courses who might be looking for some new angles with which to update or spruce up their courses. This should be on every psychologist's shelf. By this means a considerable range of topics is covered. They are back. As with their other works, these authors manage to write well for ease of reading so many facts, and do so with their characteristic humor and cutting edge science. This book is [an] illumination, and vital reading for professionals and even laymen. Anyone interested in psychology and or the scientific method. The book is written in an easy to read fashion, is well referenced and includes a wide array of topics. In conclusion, 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology is a must read for psychology majors, therapists and anyone who wishes to gain knowledge about the diverse field of psychology. I wish this book was available when I was studying psychology in college. A new book does an excellent job of mythbusting: 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology. They cover 50 myths in depth, explaining their origins, why people believe them, and what the published research has to say about the claims. Everything is meticulously documented with sources listed. The authors have done us a great service by compiling all this information in a handy, accessible form, by showing how science trumps common knowledge and common sense, and by teaching us how to question and think about what we hear. I highly recommend it. This is a fine tool for teaching critical thinking. Certainly teachers can use it as a supplement to aid in teaching critical thinking and to suggest ideas for research on other myths. We can give it to family members and friends who are curious about what psychology has to contribute and might themselves engage in some myth busting. While we certainly won't stop combating clinical psychology myths here at PBB, it's always exciting to come across like-minded folks also providing valuable material! If you have questioned science as some of us have, this book will reassure you that your thinking was perfectly logical and correct. Myths about aging, memory, learning, emotions and motivation, and mental illness are among the subjects covered. The reading is enlightening, refreshing and interesting. D, or even a student of psychology to enjoy this book. 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology: Shattering Widespread Misconceptions About Human Behavior of these myths are just plain fascinating. Undetected location. NO YES. Home Subjects Psychology Introduction to Psychology. Selected type: Paperback. Added to Your Shopping Cart. Out of stock. This is a dummy description. About the Author Scott O. Lilienfeld is a Professor of Psychology at Emory University. Lilienfeld's principal 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology: Shattering Widespread Misconceptions About Human Behavior of research are personality disorders, psychiatric classification and diagnosis, 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology: Shattering Widespread Misconceptions About Human Behavior in mental health, and the teaching of psychology. Permissions Request permission to reuse content from this site. Reviews "It offers fascinating examples of how science works, supports critical thinking, and counters some of the pseudo-science circulating in popular culture The book is fully reference and has recommendations for further reading. The authors are all well-respected professors of psychology at leading universities in the US and Canada. The four psychology professors who authored this enlightening book are up against the roughly 3, self-help titles, a lot of them based on false premises, that are published in the U. Great Myths of Psychology. Page 20 Page 20 is omitted in the third printing. The text of page 20 is reproduced here.

Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Lilienfeld. Steven Jay Lynn. John Ruscio. Barry L. 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 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology uses popular myths as a vehicle for helping students and laypersons to distinguish science from pseudoscience. Get A Copy. Paperbackpages. Published by Wiley-Blackwell first published January 1st More Details Original Title. Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychologyplease sign up. See 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology: Shattering Widespread Misconceptions About Human Behavior questions about 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology…. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Jun 21, Benozir Ahmed rated it really liked it. It was a risky and experimental venture for me to start this book just after the term end exam. I assumed it would take eons to finish this book but you know mysterious things happen with "reading extra curricular " books when the environment is musty with the squalid stench of exam and text books. Now i realise that i should've gone a little steadily. However, as i was reading the book i thought that i would compile all the mythbusters and the facts mentioned in this book so that anyone interes It was a risky and experimental venture for me 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology: Shattering Widespread Misconceptions About Human Behavior start this book just after the term end exam. However, as i was reading the book i thought that i would compile all the mythbusters and the facts mentioned in this book so that anyone interested about psychology or inquisitive of knowing the enigmas of common misbeliefs can get a concise quick peek of the book. And that would take some time and another skimming 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology: Shattering Widespread Misconceptions About Human Behavior the paragraphs. And of course the rest of the writeup would contain almost all the spoilers of the book you have been warned Few other warnings from my end for the persons who are still following this article. While reading the book I found the writers to be very assertive about their opinions but I suggest a bit different outlook. Sometimes we listen what we want to listen and many of the times we believe what we want to. If only truths would rule the world, we would be far materialistic and irrationally logical. Sometimes we just need our beliefs whether true or false at least for the sake of a healthy mind. So, don't just take the below mentioned words as the only way of evaluating psychology rather use these theories to open a window in your mind which was kept closed so long. In the following sections, Myths will be written in boldExcerpts of the book will be italicized and will be kept within " double inverted commas" and whatever I say will be written in plain. This can be translated otherwise. As it is said in the book, for even a simple task almost all parts of the brain become engaged. However, my understanding is- the more you exercise your brain the more capable it becomes as well as every brain possesses its own topic of interest which has inscribed in it after multiple permutation- combination of its genetic evolution in years. Some people are left-brained others are right brained. My explanation will be stated somewhere else 3. ESP is a well-established scientific phenomenon. Alpha consciousness is associated with states of relaxation. As adults we lose aroundneurons each day. Blind people have especially well developed senses of hearing and touch. Coma is a state of deep sleep. Alcohol warms the body. Dogs see the world in black and white. Reading in dim light can ruin our eye sight. Most people experience a midlife crisis in their 40s or early 50s. View 1 comment. This book was a little uneven between entries; one of the authors was very personable, one had a borderline-unforgivable love of puns, and one was pretty dry. However, it actually got better in the second half, although I couldn't tell you if that was the writing or topics that were just naturally more interesting to me. There's even a bonus list of "weird but true" psychological phenomena in the epilogue. Some of the myths aren't really myths, at least not as they are interpreted in the book "safety in numbers" refers to prevention of crime, not assistance when it happensbut many are common cultural wisdom and are effectively refuted. While the authors say in the introduction that they have tried to write in a more informal and conversational way, I have to report that they failed. The entries read almost exactly like the psychology textbooks I read when I minored in psychology. If you like reading psych textbooks I dothen that won't be a problem. Hopefully you can read paragraphs full of references to published research Lilienfield, Lynn, Ruscio, and Beyerstein, Even having read this book, I have to say I still don't believe IQ tests are a good asseessment of general intelligence. Also, while the tests may not be biased against any particular ethnic group or gender, they do penalize left-handed people who have to cover up the problem on the left with their 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology: Shattering Widespread Misconceptions About Human Behavior while they write the answers in the blanks on the right-hand side of the page, causing them not to be able to see the problems and write the answers at the same time like right-handers can do in timed portions of the test. The chapter on personality myths was particularly compelling to me. While it's been obvious to me since I had kids that they come pre-wired with a personality, I had no idea how little a role environment plays on most of their core personality characteristics. I also find it interesting that diagnosis of psychological problems can be done mechanically with no decrease in accuracy over expert analysis and opinion and more reliability. This reflects in the myth of the 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology: Shattering Widespread Misconceptions About Human Behavior epidemic, where the smoking gun for me was that the overall rate of child mental disability is the same as it has been, it's just that autism is getting more frequent as a diagnosis while mental retardation and learning disability diagnoses have "gone out of fashion" and decreased at the same rate autism "increased". If you're at all interested in the topics and can put up with the half-textbook writing, I think it's worth the read. View 2 comments. Jun 03, Edward Wolfe rated it did not like it. This sounded very interesting, but it didn't take long to lose my interest completely. The problem was that this book was written by the kind of person who summarily dismisses anything that can't be, or hasn't already been proven in a laboratory. Imagine a book that is about unexplained sightings of every type imaginable, and they dismiss all UFO sightings because there are no UFOs sitting in museums. To be more specific, anything to do with the mind that could involve ESP, an aura or psychic ab This sounded very interesting, but it didn't take long to lose my interest completely. To be more specific, anything to do with the mind that could involve ESP, an aura or psychic ability was automatically a "myth" because modern science can't explain it or duplicate it in a lab. The existence of planets could have just as easily been dismissed before people had the proper tools to view them. This type of "science fact" really annoys me. May 06, Xanthi rated it it was ok. I think the tone of this book just rubbed me up the wrong way. Yes, there are plenty of myths out there and yes, despite my education and wide reading, I have fallen for quite a few over the years. But I also like to keep an open mind as best I can and not be too quick to dismiss. Oh, and this book often v I think the tone of this book just rubbed me up the wrong way. Oh, and this book often veered into topics that were quite frankly off topic. Jan 08, Thomas Edmund rated it it was amazing. There is an enduring argument between myself and some of my friends: Is something that has no validity whatsoever, still a good thing if it makes people feel better? Taking a look at this work, reminds me that the real person feeling better is the benefactor from the hundreds of schleps who succumb to forking over their hard earned cash for remedies and self-help products all for a well reinforced placebo effect. Authors of fad-diet, spiritual-guidance and relationship advice frequently make sales There is an enduring argument between myself and some of my friends: Is something that has no validity whatsoever, still a good thing if it makes people feel better? Authors of fad-diet, spiritual-guidance and relationship advice frequently make sales in the millions, and must surely continue to suck up more capital with the lecture circuits. Those 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology: Shattering Widespread Misconceptions About Human Behavior swear by their natural remedies need to know this information, and those like me who have realised that pop psychology is merely a money making industry will enjoy an ivory tower scoff-fest.