Psy-Q

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SKU: 9781781252116
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A Mind-Bending Miscellany Of Everyday Psychology

By Ben Ambridge

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Psy-Q by Ben Ambridge invites readers to explore the fascinating world of psychology through engaging experiments, quizzes, and insights. It encourages self-discovery and illustrates how psychological principles can help us understand the mind and behaviour in daily life. This interactive guide offers both entertainment and education, revealing the quirky aspects of human nature.
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You might enjoy this book if you're fascinated by the quirks of human behaviour and enjoy exploring psychology’s intriguing insights. It offers engaging quizzes, games, and experiments that help explain why we do what we do, making psychology both accessible and fun.

Psy-Q

A mind-bending miscellany of everyday psychology.

A mind-bending miscellany of everyday psychology

Description

Psychology is everywhere. Our emotions and desires, the decisions we make on a daily basis—absolutely every aspect of the way we think and feel has been studied by psychologists. Through dozens of interactive puzzles, IQ tests, quizzes, jokes, puns and visual illusions, Ben Ambridge guides us through this wealth of research, showing us how we can better understand ourselves.

Debunking tabloid speculation, revisiting old favourites such as the Stanford Prison Experiment and unearthing leading-edge research unknown to the general reader, renowned psychologist Ben Ambridge blows away the received wisdom to reveal to enthusiasts and novices alike the psychology behind our daily lives.

With wit and humour aplenty, he explains whether your blue eyes make you more or less trustworthy, how analogies can help cure cancer, whether Rorschach's famous inkblot tests really work, what your love for heavy metal (or Mozart) says about you, how psychology could help solve the obesity crisis and countless other revealing, entertaining and downright astonishing tests of your Psy-Q. Visit Ben's accompanying website, http://benambridge.wordpress.com/, and test yourself—and your friends.

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Psy-Q by Ben Ambridge is praised for its engaging and fun approach to exploring psychological phenomena. Reviewers appreciate its broad and deep content that sheds light on human psychology with a mix of serious insights and playful elements. It is described as enjoyable and surprisingly enlightening, offering fresh perspectives and plenty of interactive challenges for readers.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781781252116

Publisher: Profile Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 30 July 2015

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Profile Books Ltd

Edition: Main

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 28.0mm

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 196.0mm

Weight: 240g

Pages: 352

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About the Author

Ben Ambridge is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Liverpool. His article 'Why Can't We Talk to the Animals?' was shortlisted for the 2012 Guardian-Wellcome Science Writing Prize. Psy-Q is his first book for a general audience.