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The quick fix : why fad psychology can't cure our social ills / Jesse Singal.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Singal, Jesse, 1983- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Psychology--Popular works.
- Psychology.
- Human behavior.
- Social problems.
- Genre:
- Popular works.
- Social Science / Sociology.
- Physical Description:
- 337 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
- Summary:
- "An investigative journalist exposes the many holes in today's bestselling behavioral science, and argues that the trendy, TED-Talk-friendly psychological interventions that are so in vogue at the moment will never be enough to truly address social injustice and inequality." -- Amazon.com.
- "How popular psychology fails to solve problems facing society and draws attention and resources away from more effective structural fixes"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The selling of self-esteem
- The superpredators amongs us
- Of posing and power
- Positive psychology goes to war
- Who has grit?
- The bias test
- Non-replicable
- Nudging ahead.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-319) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780374239800
- 0374239800
- OCLC:
- 1224592660
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