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The quick fix : why fad psychology can't cure our social ills / Jesse Singal.

Van Pelt Library BF145 .S535 2021
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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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