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Description: We Combine Shipping We Ship Daily Located In Ohio Contact us with any questions Christian Living Fiction Family Bibles Bible Study Ministry The Quick Fix: Why Fad Psychology Can't Cure Our Social Ills $7.34 $ New -- New with remainder mark. Buy multiples from our store to save on shipping. paperback | Singal, Jesse ISBN: 1250829461 | 9781250829467 Publisher: Picador Ready to Buy? Buy it now or add to cart above Want to Browse? Add this item to your cart, then visit our store Save on Shipping More books means less shipping per book! Shop our store Description Shipping FAQ The Quick Fix: Why Fad Psychology Can't Cure Our Social Ills An investigative journalist exposes what?s wrong with much of today?s bestselling behavioral science and its application to social problems. Through their viral TED Talks, bestselling books, and counterintuitive remedies for complicated problems, psychologists and allied social scientists have become leading thinkers of our time. ?Power posing? and ?grit,? they say, can help individuals overcome entrenched inequality in schools and the workplace. Positive psychologists inspired the U.S. Army to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on an intervention geared toward preventing PTSD in its combat soldiers. The implicit association test swept the nation on the claim that it can reveal unconscious biases and reduce racism in police and human resources departments. But what if much of the science underlying these blockbuster ideas is dubious or fallacious? What if Americans? long-standing preference for simplistic self-help platitudes is exerting a pernicious influence on the way behavioral science is communicated and even funded, leading respected academics and the media astray? In The Quick Fix, Jesse Singal examines the most influential ideas of recent decades and the shaky science that supports them. He begins with the California legislator who introduced self-esteem into the nation?s classrooms in the 1980s and the Princeton political scientist who warned of an epidemic of youthful ?superpredators? in the 1990s. Both much-touted ideas had little basis in reality, but a massive impact. Then, turning to the explosive popularity of twenty-first-century social psychology, Singal examines the misleading appeal of entertaining lab results and critiques the idea that the subtle unconscious cues known as ?primes? shape our behavior. As he shows, today?s popular behavioral science emphasizes repairing, improving, and optimizing individuals rather than understanding and confronting the larger structural forces that drive social ills. 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