A supplementary text for courses in psychology, sociology, speech, political science, English composition, and other disciplines.
This 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.
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Psychobabble And Biobunk - Using Psychology To Think Critically About Issues In The News
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.
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