PSYC 52.05 Science and Pseudoscience in the Study of Human Behavior

Do you only use 10% of your brain?  Is low self-esteem a major cause of psychological problems?  Does a positive attitude stave off cancer?  Despite, in many cases, evidence to the contrary, many of us believe in ideas and statements about human behavior that influence our actions and relationships.  Many of these ill-conceived beliefs have come to us through popular culture, media outlets, our friends and our, often faulty, intuition.  This is a course dedicated to identifying many of these “psychomyths” and learning how to recognize pseudoscientific beliefs from those that are evidence-based.

Instructor

Pfister

Prerequisite

PSYC 1

Degree Requirement Attributes

Dist:SOC

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