Psychology 101: The 101 Ideas, Concepts and Theories that Have Shaped Our World

✍ Scribed by Adrian Furnham

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Business
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 480
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Psychologists have always shone a torch, and often a spotlight, into many dark corners of the human mind. They study everything, from art preferences to altruism, coaching to criminality, jokes and humour to justice and honesty, as well as sex differences, schizophrenia and sociopathy.
Psychology can offer clear descriptions and explanations for all sort of phenomena. More importantly, psychological research can improve lives in a multitude of ways; many applied psychologists - e.g. clinical, educational, counselling and work psychologists – have the primary aim of making people more happy and better able to identify and realise their full potential.
Psychology 101 offers bite-size articles of psychological science from Adrian Furnham, a seasoned psychologist with a broad range of expertise. This book is the essential guide for anyone with an interest - either academic, professional or general - in demystifying and understanding the fascinating world of psychological history, theories, issues and beliefs.

✦ Table of Contents

Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Accident Proneness: Just Being Clumsy?
Chapter 2: Alcohol Use and Addiction: Fancy a Quick Drink?
Chapter 3: Alternative Medicine: What is it and Does it Work?
Chapter 4: Altruism and Caring: The Psychology of Kindness…and Selfishness
Chapter 5: Anality and Obsessive-Compulsive ­Disorder: The Need to be Orderly
Chapter 6: Anxiety: Are You a Worrier?
Chapter 7: Art Preferences: What Sort of Pictures do You Like?
Chapter 8: Assessment and Selection
Chapter 9: Astrology and Graphology: Are They ­Accurate and, if not, Why do People Believe in Them?
Chapter 10: Attraction and Beauty: Not Only in the Eye of the Beholder
Chapter 11: Autism, Asperger’s and Schizoid People: On the Spectrum
Chapter 12: Behavioural Economics
Chapter 13: Behaviourism and Behaviour Therapies
Chapter 14: Birth Order: Are You First Born or an Only Child?
Chapter 15: Body Language: Wink, Wink, Nod, Nod
Chapter 16: Brainstorming: Fun but does it Work?
Chapter 17: Brainwashing and Cults: How to Form a Cult!
Chapter 18: Changing Behaviour: Set in Plaster or ­Malleable as Plastic?
Chapter 19: Character Strengths and Virtues: Let’s be Positive
Chapter 20: Coaching: What is it and does it Work?
Chapter 21: Cognitive Dissonance: Changing Attitudes and Behaviour
Chapter 22: Cold Reading: How to Persuade People that you Really Understand Them
Chapter 23: Common Sense
Chapter 24: Communicating Through Different Media
Chapter 25: Conscientiousness and Grit: Pitching up and Pitching in
Chapter 26: Conspiracy and Cover-Up Theories
Chapter 27: Country and Culture Differences
Chapter 28: Creativity
Chapter 29: Culture Shock: The Shock of the New
Chapter 30: Dark Triad
Chapter 31: Defence Mechanisms and Coping: Unconscious Ways of Coping
Chapter 32: Delusions and Hallucinations
Chapter 33: Depression: Malignant Sadness
Chapter 34: Dreams and Dreaming: Fantasy Time
Chapter 35: Eating Disorders
Chapter 36: Emotional Intelligence
Chapter 37: Engagement and Drive at Work
Chapter 38: Extraversion and Introversion
Chapter 39: Eye Contact: See What they Say
Chapter 40: Freud and his Ideas: The Most Famous Psychologist of all Time
Chapter 41: Friendship: Choosing Others
Chapter 42: Group-Think: Bad Decision-Making in Teams
Chapter 43: Happiness, Flow and Joy
Chapter 44: Hawthorne and Placebo Effect: Do Treatments Really Work?
Chapter 45: Honesty and Integrity: The Traits People Most Want in Their Boss
Chapter 46: Humour, Jokes and Laughter: A Funny Thing
Chapter 47: Impression Management and Self-presentation: The Psychology of Faking Good
Chapter 48: Impulsivity and Postponement of Gratification: I Want it Now!
Chapter 49: Inkblots and Projective Techniques: The Psychology of Pretty Pictures
Chapter 50: Intelligence and IQ: How Bright Are You?
Chapter 51: Justice: What is Reasonable and Fair
Chapter 52: Leadership: Why so Many Fail
Chapter 53: Lying and Deceit
Chapter 54: Mental Health Literacy: Would You be a Good Psychiatrist?
Chapter 55: Mental Health Classification
Chapter 56: Mindset: What you Can and Cannot Change
Chapter 57: Money: The Source of All Evil?
Chapter 58: Morality and Ethics
Chapter 59: Music: Preferences, Uses and Distraction
Chapter 60: Myths about Psychology
Chapter 61: Narcissism and Self-love: The Dark Side of Self-Esteem
Chapter 62: Networks and Networking
Chapter 63: Normality and Sanity
Chapter 64: Obedience and Conformity
Chapter 65: Office Politics: The Cynical and the Savvy
Chapter 66: Parenting Style and Attachment
Chapter 67: Passive-Aggressiveness: The Stereotypical Mother-In-Law
Chapter 68: Personality Disorders: ‘Dark-Side Traits’
Chapter 69: Personality Theories and Tests
Chapter 70: Persuasion: The Psychology of Influence
Chapter 71: Phobias: A Fear of Fear
Chapter 72: Psychopaths: Watch Out, there are Many About
Chapter 73: Psychotherapy
Chapter 74: PTSD: Serious Reactions to Traumatic Events
Chapter 75: Queuing: The Waiting Game
Chapter 76: Racism and Prejudice
Chapter 77: Remote Personality Profiling: Scraping Biography Off the Web
Chapter 78: Resilience: The Psychology of Coping Well
Chapter 79: Retirement: Pipe and Slippers
Chapter 80: Schizophrenia: A Seriously Misunderstood Problem
Chapter 81: Self-Actualization: The Ultimate Achievement
Chapter 82: Self-Awareness: Do You Know Who You Are?
Chapter 83: Self-Esteem: Do you Feel Good About Yourself?
Chapter 84: Sex Differences: Nature, Nurture or ­Nothing
Chapter 85: Sex Really Does Sell: Or Does It?
Chapter 86: Shopping: The Psychology of Retail Therapy
Chapter 87: Smiling: When, How and Why We Smile
Chapter 88: Stress: Causes and Consequences
Chapter 89: Subliminal Perception and Hidden ­Messages
Chapter 90: Talent: What is it and Who has it?
Chapter 91: Thinking and Learning Styles
Chapter 92: Time: Larks and Owls and Waiting Forever
Chapter 93: Tipping: Grateful Gratuities
Chapter 94: Tolerance of Ambiguity: Are you Afraid of Uncertainty?
Chapter 95: Unemployment and Worklessness: It is No Fun Being Jobless
Chapter 96: Visual Illusion: Now you see it, Now you don’t
Chapter 97: Vocational Choice and Guidance: What Job are you Best Suited to?
Chapter 98: Work Ethic: The Benefits of Hard Work
Chapter 99: Work Motivation
Chapter 100: Workaholism
Chapter 101: Workplace Deviance
Index