Psychobabble & Biobunk: Using Psychology to Think Critically About Issues in the News - Couverture souple

Tavris, Carol

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0130279862 ISBN 13 : 9780130279866

Editeur : Pearson, 2000

Synopsis

Book by Tavris Carol

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

CAROL TAVRIS earned her Ph.D. in social psychology at the University of Michigan, and her career as a writer, lecturer, and teacher has been devoted to educating the public about the importance of scientific and critical thinking in psychology, with a special focus on gender issues. She is author of The Mismeasure of Woman: Why women are not the better sex, the inferior sex, or the opposite sex, which won the Distinguished Media Contribution award from the American Association of Applied and Preventive Psychology, and of Anger: The misunderstood emotion. She is co-author, with Carole Wade, of Psychology, Invitation to Psychology, and Psychology in Perspective. Dr. Tavris has given numerous addresses and seminars on, among other topics, social science literacy, gender research, critical thinking, anger, and the science and politics of the biomedical revolution. She has taught in the psychology department at UCLA and is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the American Psychological Society.

Quatrième de couverture

This revised and updated handbook features a selection of opinion essays and book reviews by Carol Tavris, written for The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Scientific American, and other publications. These essays, which apply psychological research and principles of scientific and critical thinking to issues in the news, may be used to encourage debate in the classroom or as a basis for student papers. Students can be asked to write or present their own points of view on a topic, drawing on research and the guidelines of critical thinking (defined and described in a prefatory "Note to the Reader") to support their conclusions. Although these essays can be used in many social science and composition courses, a "Note to the Instructor" suggests how their specific topics correspond to material in Carole Wade and Carol Tavris's Psychology and Invitation to Psychology and Tavris & Wade's Psychology in Perspective.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pearson
• Date d'édition: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0130279862
• ISBN 13: 9780130279866
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 107