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Why Fad Psychology Can't Cure Our Social Ills
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An investigative journalist exposes the many holes in today’s best-selling behavioral science, and argues that the trendy, TED-Talk-friendly psychological interventions that are so in vogue at the moment will never be enough to truly address social injustice and inequality.
With their viral TED talks, best-selling books, and counter-intuitive remedies for complicated problems, psychologists and other social scientists have become the reigning thinkers of our time. Grit and “power posing” promised to help overcome entrenched inequalities in schools and the workplace; the Army spent hundreds of millions of dollars on a positive psychology intervention geared at preventing PTSD in its combat soldiers; and the implicit association test swept the nation on the strength of the claim that it can reveal unconscious biases and reduce racism in police departments and human resources departments.
But what if much of the science underlying these blockbuster ideas is dubious or fallacious? What if Americans’ longstanding 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 classrooms around the country in the 1980s and the Princeton political scientist who warned of an epidemic of youthful “superpredators” in the 1990s. In both cases, a much-touted idea had little basis in reality, but had a massive impact. Turning toward the explosive popularity of 21st-century social psychology, Singal examines the misleading appeal of entertaining lab results and critiques the idea that subtle unconscious cues shape our behavior. As he shows, today’s popular behavioral science emphasizes repairing, improving, and optimizing individuals rather than truly understanding and confronting the larger structural forces that drive social ills.
Like Anand Giridharadas’s Winners Take All, The Quick Fix is a fresh and powerful indictment of the thought leaders and influencers who cut corners as they sell the public half-baked solutions to problems that deserve more serious treatment.
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- Narrado por: Alfie Kohn
- Duración: 8 h y 12 m
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Somehow, deeply conservative assumptions about how children behave and how parents raise them have become the conventional wisdom in our society. It's widely assumed that parents are both permissive and overprotective, unable to set limits and afraid to let their kids fail. We're told that young people receive trophies, praise, and A's too easily, and suffer from inflated self-esteem and insufficient self-discipline. However, complaints about pushover parents and entitled kids are actually decades old and driven, it turns out, by ideology more than evidence.
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good theories, no tangible or practical ideas.
- De Ben en 05-12-15
De: Alfie Kohn
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Blindspot
- De: Mahzarin R. Banaji, Anthony G. Greenwald
- Narrado por: Eric Jason Martin
- Duración: 7 h y 51 m
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I know my own mind. I am able to assess others in a fair and accurate way. These self-perceptions are challenged by leading psychologists Mahzarin R. Banaji and Anthony G. Greenwald as they explore the hidden biases we all carry from a lifetime of exposure to cultural attitudes about age, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, social class, sexuality, disability status, and nationality. Blindspot is the authors’ metaphor for the portion of the mind that houses hidden biases.
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Difficult to interpret.
- De Ryan Arnold en 12-21-15
De: Mahzarin R. Banaji, y otros
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Giving the Devil His Due
- Reflections of a Scientific Humanist
- De: Michael Shermer
- Narrado por: Michael Shermer
- Duración: 13 h y 25 m
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Who is the "Devil"? And what is he due? The devil is anyone who disagrees with you. And what he is due is the right to speak his mind. He must have this for your own safety's sake, because his freedom is inextricably tied to your own. If he can be censored, why shouldn't you be censored? If we put barriers up to silence "unpleasant" ideas, what's to stop the silencing of any discussion? This book is a full-throated defense of free speech and open inquiry in politics, science, and culture by the New York Times best-selling author and skeptic Michael Shermer.
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Flawed Audio
- De Private en 04-10-20
De: Michael Shermer
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Ungifted
- Intelligence Redefined
- De: Scott Barry Kaufman
- Narrado por: Walter Dixon
- Duración: 11 h y 36 m
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In Ungifted, cognitive psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman - who was relegated to special education as a child - sets out to show that the way we interpret traditional metrics of intelligence is misguided. Kaufman explores the latest research in genetics and neuroscience, as well as evolutionary, developmental, social, positive, and cognitive psychology, to challenge the conventional wisdom about the childhood predictors of adult success. He reveals that there are many paths to greatness, and argues for a more holistic approach to achievement that takes into account each young person’s personal goals, individual psychology, and developmental trajectory.
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Great content for the intellectually curious
- De ZestyFresh en 08-11-17
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Noise
- A Flaw in Human Judgment
- De: Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, Cass R. Sunstein
- Narrado por: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Duración: 13 h y 28 m
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From the best-selling author of Thinking, Fast and Slow, the co-author of Nudge, and the author of You Are About to Make a Terrible Mistake! comes Noise, a revolutionary exploration of why people make bad judgments, and how to control both noise and cognitive bias.
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Disappointing
- De Z28 en 05-31-21
De: Daniel Kahneman, y otros
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One Nation Under Therapy
- How the Helping Culture is Eroding Self-Reliance
- De: Christina Hoff Sommers, Sally Satel
- Narrado por: Dianna Dorman
- Duración: 8 h y 30 m
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Americans have traditionally placed great value on self-reliance and fortitude. Recent decades, however, have seen the rise of a therapeutic ethic that views Americans as emotionally underdeveloped, requiring the ministrations of mental-health professionals to cope with life's vicissitudes. Today, having a book for every ailment, a counselor for every crisis, a lawsuit for every grievance, and a TV show for every problem degrades one's native ability to cope with life's challenges.
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If you want another perspective
- De Kurt en 03-07-09
De: Christina Hoff Sommers, y otros
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Big Gods
- How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Conflict
- De: Ara Norenzayan
- Narrado por: Paul Nixon
- Duración: 8 h y 33 m
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How did human societies scale up from small, tight-knit groups of hunter-gatherers to the large, anonymous, cooperative societies of today - even though anonymity is the enemy of cooperation? How did organized religions with "Big Gods" - the great monotheistic and polytheistic faiths - spread to colonize most minds in the world? In Big Gods, Ara Norenzayan makes the surprising and provocative argument that these fundamental puzzles about the origins of civilization are one and the same, and answer each other.
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Great read
- De paro en 02-27-24
De: Ara Norenzayan
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The Blank Slate
- The Modern Denial of Human Nature
- De: Steven Pinker
- Narrado por: Victor Bevine
- Duración: 22 h y 40 m
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In The Blank Slate, Steven Pinker, one of the world's leading experts on language and the mind, explores the idea of human nature and its moral, emotional, and political colorings. With characteristic wit, lucidity, and insight, Pinker argues that the dogma that the mind has no innate traits, denies our common humanity and our individual preferences, replaces objective analyses of social problems with feel-good slogans, and distorts our understanding of politics, violence, parenting, and the arts.
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Don't bother. Outdated science & poor logic...
- De ejf211 en 03-31-10
De: Steven Pinker
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The Spirit Level
- Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger
- De: Richard Wilkinson, Kate Pickett
- Narrado por: Clive Chafer
- Duración: 8 h y 26 m
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Renowned researchers Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett offer groundbreaking analysis showing that greater economic equality-not greater wealth-is the mark of the most successful societies, and offer new ways to achieve it.
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An Important Book
- De Stephen Schoenberg en 12-19-11
De: Richard Wilkinson, y otros
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Ghetto
- The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea
- De: Mitchell Duneier
- Narrado por: Prentice Onayemi
- Duración: 10 h y 8 m
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On March 29, 1516, the city council of Venice issued a decree forcing Jews to live in il geto - a closed quarter named for the copper foundry that once occupied the area. The term stuck. In this sweeping and original interpretation, Mitchell Duneier traces the idea of the ghetto from its beginnings in the 16th century and its revival by the Nazis to the present. As Duneier shows, we cannot understand the entanglements of race, poverty, and place in America today without recalling the history of the ghetto in Europe, as well as later efforts to understand the problems of the American city.
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Impressive
- De Jean en 12-10-16
De: Mitchell Duneier
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What Works
- Gender Equality by Design
- De: Iris Bohnet
- Narrado por: Laurel Lefkow
- Duración: 9 h y 22 m
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Gender equality is a moral and a business imperative. But unconscious bias holds us back, and de-biasing people’s minds has proven to be difficult and expensive. Diversity training programs have had limited success, and individual effort alone often invites backlash. Behavioral design offers a new solution. By de-biasing organizations instead of individuals, we can make smart changes that have big impacts.
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Excellent book every women and executive should read
- De N LI en 05-10-21
De: Iris Bohnet
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The End of Average
- How We Succeed in a World That Values Sameness
- De: Todd Rose
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 6 h y 31 m
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Are you above average? Is your child an A student? Is your employee an introvert or an extrovert? Every day we are measured against the yardstick of averages, judged according to how close we come to it or how far we deviate from it. The assumption that metrics comparing us to an average—like GPAs, personality test results, and performance review ratings—reveal something meaningful about our potential is so ingrained in our consciousness that we don't even question it. That assumption, says Harvard's Todd Rose, is spectacularly—and scientifically—wrong.
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Good intentions, terrible execution
- De Kristofer Jarl en 05-06-19
De: Todd Rose
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- seth
- 04-08-21
Excellent, entertaining review of the literature
Signal reviews the lit on the replication crisis with compelling examples, without falling into the pop psych trap of sacrificing truth for narrative clarity. Would recommend to anyone, especially fans or the Blocked and Reported podcast.
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- Nathaniel
- 04-24-21
Much Needed Science and Skepticism Amid Endless Puffery
Singal nearly undoes decades of fast-tracked, half-baked ideas and pop-psych fads that were able to run wild in America. Thanks, in large part, to our desperation to solve complex problems and overcome impossible odds to achieve success. But the devil is in the details, and non-replicated studies that produce inaccurate views of the world can have serious opportunity costs for discernible, lasting changes for individuals and society. Singal expertly dodges the trap of partisanship here in dismantling several pop psychology’s most sacred cows of the 20th and 21st century. A must read for anyone who suspects Americans are drowning in a swamp of “easy answers” at the cost of real progress.
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- Terry Van Loon
- 04-14-21
Fascinating insights
I'm a much better-educated interpreter of social science thanks to Jesse Singal. "The Quick Fix" explains the shortcomings in our headlines and how social scientists sometimes, the media most times, over hype research. Simple examples illustrate some of the oft used methods for disinformation, making it possible for me to ask better questions in future social science research.
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- shoshidge
- 05-05-21
good stuff
solid and fair takedown of fad psychology and social science.
narration is good too, Singal's voice sounds like he has wine corks stuffed up his nostrils but you get used to it.
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- Debbie M.
- 09-22-22
Great!
I subscribe to Jesse's substack and listen to Blocked & Reported, and I didn't feel like this was repeated material. Even if it was, it was nice to have it nicely organized. It was well researched, and a great listen!
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- Benjamin Pelletier
- 04-25-21
Clear, even-handed look at recent pop psychology
While I'm sure I would disagree with the author on many political topics, I would absolutely trust him to fairly evaluate the merits of both sides of any particular argument. This book does exactly what it says it does, and in a very clear and effective manner. As a side note, I happened to find the author's chapter on the implicit association test the clearest argument regarding the prevalence of systemic racism that I've encountered. Recommended.
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- Grace M-T
- 04-08-21
This is why you hire professional narrators
Great book, substandard narration. Monotone etc. Buy the book (kindle or print )instead. You won’t regret it
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- Lori Dickerson
- 04-13-21
Sanjay sent me
Very thoughtful and honest discussion of seldom looked into topics. Thank you Jesse! Was going to get it anyway but felt inclined to do it sooner at Sanjay’s recommendation.
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- Daniel G.
- 08-24-22
Swimming Against The Current
Jesse is willing to swim against the current of mainstream psychology and reveal how many of these half-baked findings from psychology have not brought about the desired effects they claimed would occur. He seems to be a voice of reason in a world that has gone mad in seeking to create the latest fad to cure the world of its ills.
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- Anonymous User
- 01-31-23
Must-listen
One of those books everyone should read/listen to, to ensure their critical thinking skills remain sharp and to remember to question what we're told.
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