"I find each and every chapter excellent and from a teaching point of view, brilliant. The way in which the history of the myths is presented up to the critical but balanced discussion of each myth, is a great achievement. Scott Lilienfeld is well-known for his user-friendly writing style, but in this text he and his co-authors reach a new level.
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 â??opposites attract,â?? â??people use only 10% of their brains,â?? and handwriting reveals your personality
* Provides a â??mythbusting kitâ?? 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
"[...] Die Autoren [sind] keine Journalisten, sondern ausgewiesene, an Universitäten forschende und lehrende Wissenschaftler [...] Die 50 Psychomythen, die kritisiert und deren Falschheit gezeigt wird, verteilen sich auf 11 Bereiche und damit auch auf 11 Kapitel [...] sehr gutes Buch [...]" (Amazon.de, November 2009)
