The Quick Fix: Why Fad Psychology Can't Cure Our Social Ills, Hardcover - Jesse Singal

Reducere. An investigative journalist exposes the many holes in today's bestselling behavioral science, and argues that the trendy, TED-Talk-friendly psychol...

Publisher: PicadorAuthor(s): Jesse SingalNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 137 x 209 x 29Cover type: PaperbackRedescopera farme...

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and GirouxAuthor(s): Jesse SingalNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 152 x 228 x 26Cover type: Paperbac...

Reducere. "Clear, balanced, and lively." -- Steven Pinker, bestselling author of How the Mind Works ARE YOU AFRAID OF THE "RIGHT" RISKS? Do you worry more ab...

Reducere. Imagine if we treated broken hearts with the same respect and concern we have for broken arms? Psychologist Guy Winch urges us to rethink the way w...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Ciaran ThaparNumber of pages: 368Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 129 x 196 x 26Cover type: Paperback / sof...

A series that introduces young children to different emotions and aspects of behaviour, through a fictional story appropriate for the age group.

Points of curiosity children may encounter in physics, chemistry, biology, psychology and technology, following on from }Why Don't Fish Drown?{ and...

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The definitive and stunningly illustrated question and answer book from Britannica, with answers to more than 100 questions that kids really want t...

Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing IncNumber of pages: 200Collection: New Literacies and Digital EpistemologiesPublication date: 2007Dimensions: 152 ...

Reducere. In America today, 43 percent of our children fall below grade level in reading. In her meticulously researched and groundbreaking work, Diane McGui...

How to take advantage of technology, data, and the collective wisdom in our communities to design powerful solutions to contemporary problems The c...

Anxious Eaters shows that fad diets are popular because they fulfill crucial social and psychological needs-which is also why they tend to fail. Ja...

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Reducere. "Forensic Psychology 101: A Quick Guide That Teaches You the Top Key Lessons About Forensic Psychology from A to Z" is aimed towards persons intere...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): John Durham PetersIllustration(s): 8 black and white illustrationsNumber of pages: 296Publication date: 2021Dime...

The beloved actress and star of the digital series Quick Fix saves you time and energy with her favorite mealtime hacks, tips to bring joy and bala...

Understanding cooperation as a distinctly human combination of innate and learned behavior.Drop something in front of a two-year-old, and she's lik...

Most of us recognize that climate change is real yet we do nothing to stop it. What is the psychological mechanism that allows us to know something...

Working with social media data requires a specific set of knowledge and skills which this Little Quick Fix provides!

Reducere. DescriptionWhat goes through a psychiatrist's mind as she sits with her patients and listens to them talk? How does she figure out how to help, and...

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The Know Your Numbers Little Quick Fix teaches students easy ways to nail the basic numbers, but also why it's important. Relationships between num...

A personal account from the parents of Colette McCulloch, who was killed on the road after walking out of the specialist care facility for autistic...

A playful, sharp-eyed myth-busting reassessment of the part numbers and statistics play in our lives.

Keeping students focused can be difficult in a world filled with distractions -- which is why a renowned educator created a scientific solution to ...

In Free to Learn, developmental psychologist Peter Gray argues that in order to foster children who will thrive in today's constantly changing worl...

This is a journey into the mind and life of humanity. From inception, the foundations of our consciousness, thoughts, desire, and actions are expla...

Taking students through the essentials of managing, coding and interpreting interview data, this Little Quick Fix helps them master interviews as a...

Lecturers teaching big mixed cohort intro statistics courses cite one of the more frequent challenges their students encounter involves choices ove...

Reducere. Leading neuroscientist Gordon M. Shepherd embarks on a paradigm-shifting trip through the "human brain flavor system, " laying the foundations for ...

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Your mind is not built to make you happy; it's built to help you survive. So far, it's done a great jobBut in the process, it may have developed so...

DescriptionSocial psychology for beginners: How our thoughts and feelings influence our behavior in social interactionsGetting to know the 4 big ar...

Offering guidance on doing experiments, this Little Quick Fix helps students select the most appropriate experiment for their research, collect and...

The free market as we know it cannot produce gender equality. This is the bold but authoritative argument of Vicky Pryce, the government's former e...

Description*Wall Street Journal bestseller*Next Big Idea Club selection--chosen by Malcolm Gladwell, Susan Cain, Dan Pink, and Adam Grant as one of...