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What happens to psychology on its way from the lab to your feed?
Psychological ideas now shape how we talk about ourselves, our relationships, and our behaviour.
From love languages to dopamine, attachment styles to cognitive biases, these concepts have become common knowledge.
But many of them have travelled a long way from the research that started them.
When Studies Become Stories takes 89 of the most widely repeated ideas in popular psychology and traces each one back to the evidence, in plain, easy-to-digest language.
Every entry receives one of four verdicts: Has Evidence, Overstated, Oversimplified, or No Evidence, followed by practical guidance on how to apply the idea accurately, or whether to set it aside.
From love languages to dopamine, attachment styles to cognitive biases, these concepts have become common knowledge.
But many of them have travelled a long way from the research that started them.
When Studies Become Stories takes 89 of the most widely repeated ideas in popular psychology and traces each one back to the evidence, in plain, easy-to-digest language.
Every entry receives one of four verdicts: Has Evidence, Overstated, Oversimplified, or No Evidence, followed by practical guidance on how to apply the idea accurately, or whether to set it aside.
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