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Popular psychology is an essential ingredient of the self-help industry. [5]According to Fried and Schultis, criteria for a good self-help book include "claims made by the author as to the book's efficacy, the presentation of problem-solving strategies based on scientific evidence and professional experience, the author's credentials and professional experience, and the inclusion of a ...
The term popular psychology refers to concepts and theories about human mental life and behaviour that are purportedly based on psychology and that attain popularity among the general population. Contents
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Psychology is a collection of academic, clinical and industrial disciplines concerned with the explanation and prediction of behavior, thinking, emotions, motivations, relationships, potentials and pathologies.
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This category is for books which are part of the popular psychology genre, or otherwise propagate the ideas of popular psychology. While some of the books in this category may be best-sellers or otherwise well-known (i.e., could be considered "popular" books), not all the books here need to meet that, and not every psychology book that is well-known will necessary be a popular psychology book.
Social psychology utilizes a wide range of specific theories for various kinds of social and cognitive phenomena. Here is a sampling of some of the more influential theories that can be found in this branch of psychology. Attribution theory – is concerned with the ways in which people explain (or attribute) the behaviour of others. The theory ...