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What pop psychology gets wrong.

Medium Periodical Article
Medium - part of - (Periodical Copy) (Number) 352 (Date) Summer2020
Medium (Periodical) BBC Science Focus.
Classif 500 BBC
Subject Science and technology
Page 70 - 77
Authors Jarrett, Christian
Contents

Power corrupts, crowds are violent and depression is just a chemical imbalance. Right? The classic psychology theories often have a nice ring to them, creating a mythology that persists throughout the media, cinema and literature. But new research is revealing that the human mind isn't as simple as we'd like to think.

Keywords
Experiments     Learning styles     Social research