Index
9 Steps for Reversing or Preventing Cancer and Other Diseases
60 Minutes
501 Ways to Boost Your Child’s Self-Esteem
A Beautiful Mind
A Catcher in the Rye
A Clockwork Orange
A Moral Emergency
Abell, George
Abelson, Robert
access to research data
acetylcholine
Ackerman, Robert
ACT (test)
activation-synthesis theory
actuarial tables
actus reas
Adler, Alfred
adolescence
Adolescence: The Stormy Decade
Adult Children of Alcoholics
Adult Children of Alcoholics(ACOA)
Advertising Age
After Hours
age regression
aggression
alcoholics
Alcoholics Anonymous
alcoholism
12 steps program
behavioral self-control training (BSCT)
controlled drinking
disease model of
relapse prevention (RP) programs
Alexander, Franz
All That Jazz
Allen, Woody
Alzheimer’s disease
America’s Psychic Challenge
American Beauty
American Law Institute (ALI)
American Psychological Association
clinical psychology division
ethical standards
first president
IQ tests
Rorschach inkblot test
sexual abuse article
amnesia
cognitive defects resulting from
dissociative
faking of symptoms
generalized
Analyze This
Angelica, Jade
anger
Anger Management
Angst, Jules
anterograde amnesia
anti-inflammatory medications
antisocial behavior
Antwone Fisher
aphrodisiacs
Applied Creative Thinking Workshop
Arbuthnott, Katherine
Aristotle
armchair psychology
aromatherapy
arthritis
artificial somnambulism
association cortex
astral projection/travel
Atwater, Brent
autism
availability heuristic
babies
“Baby Einstein”
Bach, George
backward subliminal messages
Backwards: The Riddle of Dyslexia
Bacon, Sir Francis
Baldi, Camillo
Bandura, Albert
Bangerter, Adrian
Barnum Effect
Barry, Christopher
base rate information
Bass, Ellen
Batman Returns
Baumeister, Roy
Beck, Aaron
behavior therapists
behavioral training
believers’ books
Beltway sniper attacks
Bem, Daryl
Ben-Shakhar, Gershon
Bentham, Jeremy
Bernardin, Cardinal Joseph
biased sampling
“Big Five” personality traits
bipolar disorder
birth order
Black Dahlia case
Blake, Robert
Bleuler, Eugen
Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking
Blume, Judith
Bonaparte, Marie
Boorstin, Daniel
Bouchard, Thomas
Brady, James
brain
damage to
electrical stimulation of
glial cells
hemispheres, of the brain
hypnosis and
laterality of function
unused areas of
Brain Age
brain power
“brain tuners”
Branden, Nathaniel
Breuer, Joseph
Brickman, Philip
Brizendine, Louann
Bronowski, Jacob
Brown, Larry
Brown, Pat
Bull Durham
Burgess, Anthony
Burton, Sir Richard
Bush, G. W.
Bushman, Brad
Buston, Peter
Butterfly Effect
Byrne, Donn
Byrne, Rhonda
bystander nonintervention
Campbell, Donald
Campbell, Jennifer
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)
cancer, staved off by positive attitude
scientific evidence
Cape Fear
Carnegie, Dale
Carrie
catharsis
causation
“Central Park Five”
Chandler, Jordan
Chaplin, Charlie
character reading
Charlie’s Drunken Daze
“Chicken Soup” books
child abuse
personality disturbance and
repressed memories and
childhood memories
childhood resilience
childhood sexual abuse and personality disorders
children, diagnostic labels and
Cho, Seung-Hui
“Choker Chicken”
“Choking Strangler Boss”
Chopra, Deepak
Chowchilla kidnapping
City Slickers
clairvoyance
classical music
clinical decision-making
clinical depression
clinical method of decision-making
clinical neurology
clinician’s illusion
Clinton, Bill
Clinton, Hillary
Cloud Picture Test
codependent personality traits, ACOAs and
Coffield, Frank
cognitive-behavioral therapists
cognitive behavioral therapy,hypnosis and
cognitive illusions
Cohen, Jacob
Cohen, Patricia
Cohen’s d
coincidences
Columbine High School
comas
command hallucinations
common sense see also hunches; intuitions
communication, gender differences
Comparison Question Test
complementarity
Comprehensive System (CS) of Rorschach
confessions, false
characteristics that increase likelihood of
police bias
reasons for
Confessions of Crime
confirmation bias
consciousness
controlled drinking
Cook, Steven
Copycat
corpus callosum
correlation
Corrigan, Patrick
Court TV
courtroom culture
Coyne, James
Crick, Francis
Criminal Minds
criminal profiling
“crisis”, mesmerism and
critical thinking
critomancy
Cromer, Alan
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Curse of the Jade Scorpion
“cycle of child abuse”
“cycle of violence” hypothesis
Cypress Knee Projective Technique
DABDA
Dahmer, Jeffrey
Dante, Alighieri
Dark Knight
Darley, John
Darwin, Charles
“Dating Tipster” internet site
Davies, D. L.
Davis, Laura
day residue
Dead on Sight
death see dying
debunking myths, risks of
DeLay, Tom
Della Sala, Sergio
Dement, William
depression, elderly and see also clinical depression
Destructotherapy
diagnoses
autism
mental health
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)
diagnostic criteria, less stringent for autism
diagnostic substitution
Diana, Princess of Wales, death of
Diener, Ed
differential item functioning (DIF)
diffusion of responsibility
Dindia, Kathryn
dissociative amnesia
dissociative identity disorder (DID)
Divine Comedy
divorce
effect on children
DNA
Dobson, Dr. James
dogs
Dowd, Maureen
Dr. Laura see Schlessinger, Laura
Dr. Phil see McGraw, Phil
Draw-a-Person Test
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
dream dictionaries
dreams
external stimuli
interpretation of
interpretation products
Dreamscape
Dukakis, Kitty
Du Maurier, George
dunking test
Dunleavy, M. P.
dying
Dying to Remember
Dylan, Bob
dyslexia, myth of letter reversal
causes of
definition of
Eagleton, Senator Thomas
easy answers and quick fixes
Eckankar
ego, Freud’s understanding of
eHarmony.com
Ehrsson, Henrik
Einstein, Albert
elderly
and new skills
stereotypes
suicide and
electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
patient views of
portrayal in entertainment media
risks of
electroencephalograms (EEGs)
Elliott, T. S.
Ellis, Albert
Emlen, Stephen
emotion and motivation
Employee Polygraph Protection Act
empty nest syndrome
epilepsy
Epley, Nicholas
ERIC database
Erickson, Milton
Erikson, Erik
Ernst, Cecile
Esdaile, James
Euclid
“evil eye”
Exner, John
expert judgment, clinical decisions and
expertise heuristic
extramission theory origin of
extrasensory perception (ESP)
eyewitness accounts
Eysenck, Michael
facial feedback hypothesis
facilitated communication
fad diets
false memories
hypnosis and
false positives, lie detector tests and
feng shui
film and media
alcohol portrayed in
anger management
ECT portrayed in
elderly portrayed in
gender differences
lunar effect
midlife crisis
misleading portrayals
psychotherapy portrayed in
repressed memories
romantic attachments
teenagers portrayed in see also entries for individual titles
“fireside inductions”
first instinct fallacy
flashbulb memories
Fletcherizing
Flutie, Doug
folk psychology
Follette, Victoria
Forrest Gump
Foster, Jodie
Frank, Lawrence
Frankl, Victor
Franklin, Benjamin
Franklin, George,
Frasier
fraternal twins
Frederickson, Renee
Freedom Writers
Frensch, Peter
Friday the 13th
Friends
Freud, Anna
Freud, Sigmund
Fringe
Ganzfeld technique
Garden of Lies
Gardner, Howard
Garfield, Bob
Geller, Uri
general intelligence factor
general mental ability see general intelligence factor
generalized anxiety disorder
genes
Genesis (rock band)
Gerberding, Julie
Gergen, Kenneth
Gestalt therapy
Ghostbusters
Gilovich, Thomas
Girl, Interrupted
Gladwell, Malcolm
Goldberg, Herb
Goldberg, Lewis
Golden Rule Insurance Company et al. v. Washburn et al.
Golding, Jonathan
Good Will Hunting
Goodman, Dr. Shivani
Goodman, Gail
Gore, Al
Gothika
Gotlib, Ian
Gottesman, Irving
Gould, Stephen Jay
Graduate Record Exam (GRE)
graphologists, employment of
graphology
analytic approach
history of
rationales for
graphotherapeutics
Gray, John
Great Fourfold Table of Life, The
Great Ideas of Psychology
Greenwald, Anthony
grief
Groundhog Day
Grove, William
Gruwell, Erin
Gudjonsson, Gisli
“guilty but mentally ill” (GBMI) verdict
Hall, G. Stanley
Hall, Judith
Halloween
hallucinations, command
handshakes
handwriting and personality traits
happiness
external circumstances and
genetic influence
life events
marital stability and
money
older people
Harris, Eric
Harris, Judith Rich
Harris, Youree Dell
Harsch, Nicole
Hartmann, Heinz
Hays, Louise
head injuries
head trauma
Healing Cancer & Your Mind
health professionals
decision-making by
diagnostic labels
views on adolescence
Heath, Chip
heavy metal rock bands
Hecht, Jennifer Michael
hedonic treadmill
Helicobacter (H.) pylori
Helms, Heather
heritability
definition of
estimation of
of intelligence
Hernandez, Jorge
Herrnstein, Richard
Hill, John
Hinckley, John
Hippocrates
Hitler, Adolph
Hobson, J. Allan
Hoffer, Eric
Hollywood see film and media
Holmbeck, Grayson
homophily
Honey, Peter
Honey-Mumford model of learning
Honorton, Charles
Horgan, John
Horwitz, Allan
House on Haunted Hill
How to Be Twice as Smart
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Hudson Institute
human figure drawing
hunches see also common sense; intuitions
Hyde, Janet
Hyman, Ronald
Hyperdictionary of Dreams
hypnoanalysis
hypnopaedia see sleep assisted learning
hypnosis
neurobiology of
stage shows
HypnosisDownloads
id
identical twins
illusory correlation
illusory placebo effect
In Like Flint
In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity
inkblots
Innocence Project
insanity defense
intelligence
elderly and
Gottfredson’s definition of
heritability of
infants and music
and learning
International Graphoanalysis Society
internet dating
interrogation
intuitions see also common sense; hunches
Invasion of the Space Preachers
IQ
heritability of
Mozart Effect and
test bias
Isaacson, Cliff
It Happened One Night
It Takes a Village
Ivins, Dr. Bruce
Jackson, Michael
Jacques, Elliott
James, William
Janet, Pierre
Jefferson, Tyrone
Jensen, Arthur
Johnny English
Judas Priest
Judge Judy
Julius Caesar
Jumping Jack Flash
Jung, Carl
Kahneman, Daniel
Karr, John Mark
Kasir Kasab, Azam
Kassin, Saul
Kelly, George
Kelly, Ivan
Kendall-Tackett, Kathleen
Kennedy, J. F., assassination of
Kennedy, Robert F. Jr.
kernel of truth
adolescence
dying
IQ test bias
left/right brained
lunar effect
midlife crisis
opposites attract
Kevles, Daniel
Key, Wilson Brian
Kids
King, Stephen
King of Queens
King of the Hill
Kirby, David
Kiss the Girls
Klebold, Dylan
Klopfer, Bruno
Knocked Up
koro
Kowalski, Patricia
Kratzig, Gregory
Kristberg, Wayne
Krueger, Joachim
Kübler-Ross, Elisabeth
Five Stages of Grief
Langer, Ellen
language, difference between men and women
Larry P. v. Riles (1980)
Latane, Bibb
latent content of dreams
Law and Order
LeCrone, Hap
Learning Styles Inventory
learning styles matched by teaching styles
four steps of
Leaving Las Vegas
Lee, John
left or right brained myth
origins of
Lehman, Darrin
Leman, Kevin
Lenggenhager, Bigna
lie detector see polygraph test
Lie to Me
Lieber, Arnold
Lindbergh, Charles
literalism, hypnotism and
Lloyd, Eddie Joe
Locke, John
Loewenberg, Lauri Quinn
Loftus, Elizabeth
Loftus, Geoffrey
Logue, Mary Beth
Lohr, Jeffrey
Long Kiss Goodnight
low self-esteem
Lucas, Henry Lee
lunar effect
lying
bodily cues
Lykken, David
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
magnetism
Maid in Manhattan
major depression see clinical depression
male-female communication
Manhunt (video game)
manifest content of dreams
Maraniss, David
“Mars and Venus” books
Marshall, Barry
Marston, William Moulton
Match.com
Mayes, Larry
McCain, John
McCarley, Robert
McCarthy, Jenny
McCloskey, Michael
McClure, Erin
McConkey, Kevin
McCutcheon, Lynn
McDermott, Kathleen
McGraw, Dr Phil
McNally, Richard
Me, Myself, and Irene
mechanical method of decision-making
objections to
media reports, and Mozart Effect
media stereotypes
elderly
teenage years
Medical Hypotheses
medicine, misconceptions in
Medium
Meehl, Paul
Meet the Parents
Mehl, Matthias
Memento
memorable co-occurrences
memory
hardening
illusions
loss
reconstructive nature of
schematic
selective
source monitoring confusion
mens rea
mental illness
informal labeling
portrayed in media
stigma of
and violence
Mesmer, Franz Anton
mesmerism
meta-analysis
metoposcopy
Michon, Abbé Jean-Hippolyte
Midlife Club
midlife crisis
Midnight Cowboy
Millennium
Miller, Zell
Milton, Julie
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Mind over Money: Your Path to Wealth and Happiness
“Minnesota Twin” study
Minority Report
Mischel, Walter
Miss Cleo’s Psychic Hotline
MMR vaccine
M’Naughten rule
Money and Happiness: A Guide to Living the Good Life
Money Can Buy Happiness: How to Spend to Get the Life You Want
mood enhancing crystals
moon
Morse code
Moulton, Charles see Marston, William Moulton
Mozart Effect
multiple choice tests, changing answers on
multiple personality disorder
Mumford, Alan
Murray, Charles
My Own Worst Enemy
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
Mysterious Skin
Mystic River
mythbusting, everyday life and
“Mythbusting Kit”
Nader, Ralph
naïve realism
Naked Gun
Nancy Grace
narcissism
narcissistic injury
Nash, John
Nash, Michael
Nason, Susan
National Academy of Science
National Association for Self-Esteem
National Public Radio
National Research Council
Nature
Neisser, Ulric
neo-Freudians
Network
neurons
neuropsychology
neurosurgery
Nida, Steve
Nightmare on Elm Street
Nixon, President Richard
nonverbal cues, women and
non-western cultures, teenagers in
Norcross, John
norepinephrine
nurture assumption
Obama, Barack
Office Space
Olson, Harry
omphalomancy
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
On the Record
One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest
onychomancy
Opening Skinner’s Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century
opportunity cost
optical illusions
ordeal of water
Ordinary People
Ornstein, Robert
Orton, Samuel
out-of-body experiences (OBEs)
brain location of
Outer Limits
Overboard
Overcome Midlife Crisis
Packard, Vance
palmistry
Pantle, Mark
Paragon Learning Style Inventory
paranormal
parenting
Pasewark, Richard
Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life
past life regression therapy
Peale, Norman Vincent
Pearl Harbor
Pearson, Karl
Peek, Kim
Penn, David
peptic ulcers
Perfect Daughters
Perls, Frederick
personality myths
personality traits
ACOAs
romantic attraction and
phenylketonuria (PKU)
Phillips, Kelly-Anne
phonemes
phosphenes
phrenology
physiognomy
Piaget, Jean
place names
placebo effect
Plato
pluralistic ignorance
Plutarch
policy-makers
Polusny, Melissa
polygraph test
countermeasures
machine
physiological activity
Poole, Debra
Pope, Harrison
Popper, Sir Karl
popular press/media
positron emission tomography (PET) scanners
post hoc, ergo propter hoc reasoning
Prager, Dennis
precognition
Preparing for Adolescence
Primal Fear
primal therapy
priming words/pictures
Profiler
“projectiology”
projective techniques
proverbs
Proulx, Christine
pseudopatients
psi-related experiences
psychiatric labels
positive effects of
Psycho
psychoanalysis
psychodynamic therapists
psychokinesis
Psychological Bulletin
psychological research, effect on bystander intervention
“psychological X-ray”
psychology and the law
psychomythology, meaning of term
P. T. Barnum statements see Barnum Effect
Puysugaur, Marquis de
Quantum Healing
quick fixes
Race, Victor
Radish, Kris
Rain Man
Rain Man Effect
Raison, Charles
Ramsey, JonBenet
rapid eye movement (REM) sleep
Read, J. Don
Reagan, President Ronald
reasoning by representativeness
Rebel Without a Cause
recognition threshold
recovered traumatic memory
reflexivity
refutational messages
Reid, Thomas
representativeness heuristic
repression of memories, no scientific evidence of
Repressions
research, scrutiny of
retina
retrograde amnesia
Rhine, Joseph Banks
rice test
Rind, Bruce
Robinson, Daniel
Robinson, Tom
Roediger, Henry
Rogers, Carl
romantic attraction
Rorschach, Hermann
Rorschach Inkblot Test
detection in thought disorders
diagnostic usefulness
Rosenhan, David
Rosoff, Barbara
Ross, Colin
Ross, Lee
Roth, Tim
Rotton, James
Rowley, Laura
Ruscio, John
safety in numbers
Sagan, Carl
Salmon, Matt
Samantha Who?
Santa Who?
Satanic messages
Saul, Leon
savant syndrome
Savitsky, Kenneth
Scanners
schemas
Schiavo, Terri
schizophrenia
origin of term
Schlessinger, Laura
Schmolck, Heike
Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT)
school shootings
Schwarz, Norbert
scientific method
Segal, Nancy
selection bias
selective perception and memory
self-esteem
in educational and occupational practices
and violence
Self-Esteem Games
“Self-Esteem Question Desk”
self-help books
anger management
Mars and Venus books
Seligman, Martin
senility prayer
seniors
sensory threshold
sexual abuse
sexual activity, elderly and
Shaffer, Thomas
Shakespeare, William
Shallow Hal
shared environment
Sheehy, Gail
Shek, Daniel
Sheldrake, Rupert
Shepard, Roger
Shepard’s Tables
Sheppard, Edith
Sher, Kenneth
shock therapy see electroconvulsive therapy
shopping mall study
Short, Elizabeth
silent classroom scenario
silent cortex
Silva Ultra Mind Seminar
simple detection threshold
Simpson, O. J.
Skuse, David
Slater, Lauren
sleep assisted learning
sleep paralysis
snap judgments
Snyder, Mark
Snyder, Thoburn
Sobell, Mark and Linda
social learning theory
“Soulmatch” internet site
Spearman, Charles
speed reading
Sperry, Roger
Spiegel, David
Spitzer, Robert
split brain patients
split personality
stage whispers technique
Stargate program
Stern, Wilhelm
Stir of Echoes
Storm, Lance
strephosymbolia
stereotypes
ECT
elderly
influence on memory
Stevenson, Robert Louis
stigma
strokes
subliminal messages
Subliminal Seduction
substance abuse disorders
suicide
Suitbert, Ertel
Sulloway, Frank
Summer of Sam
Sundquist, Don
superbabies
Superman
synesthesia
talkativeness, women and men compared
Tannen, Deborah
tapetum lucidum
Task Force on Self-Esteem and Personal and Social Responsibility
tasseography
Tavris, Carol
Taylor, Annette
teenagers
telepathy
Tellegen, Auke
Temerlin, Maurice
ten sources of error
terminological confusion
Texas Chain Saw Massacre
The Adult Children of Alcoholics Syndrome
The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life
The Birth Order Effect: How to Better Understand Yourself and Others
The Bourne Identity
The Bourne Supremacy
The Bourne Ultimatum
The Butcher’s Wife
The Clinton Enigma
The Color Purple
The Courage to Heal
The Days of Wine and Roses
The Dead Zone
The Female Brain
The Flintstones
The Garden Murders
The Happiness Myth
The Hidden Persuaders
The Honeymooners
“The Hulk”
The Hypnotic Eye
The Iceman-Confessions of a Mafia Hitman
The Interpretation of Dreams
The Lost Weekend
The Manchurian Candidate
The Moment of Truth
The New Birth Order Book: Why You Are the Way You Are
The Oprah Winfrey Show
The Power of Positive Thinking
The Reformation of an Alcoholic
The Resurrection Syndrome
The Right Mind: Making Sense of the Hemispheres
The Savages
The Secret
The Sender
The Silence of the Lambs
The Simpsons
The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem
The Sixth Sense
The Sopranos
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
“Thinkblot”
thimerosal
third variable problem
Thirteen
Thomas, Lowell
Tomatis, Alfred
toys
Trading Places
“trance state”
traumatic events
hypnosis and
primal therapy and
repressed memories of
Trilby
True Lies
truth serum
Turkheimer, Eric
Twain, Mark
Twilight Zone
twins
fraternal
identical
virtual
ulcers, caused by stress myth
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
Uranowitz, Seymour
US Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
US National Academy of Sciences
US National Research Council
vaccines
Valdez-Menchaca, Marta
VAK model of learning
van Zandt, Clint
Vasconcellos, John
verbal communication
Vicary, James
Virginia Tech
virtual twins
Vohs, Kathleen
Vokey, John
Voltaire
Vygotsky, Lev
Wakefield, Jerome
Wallerstein, Judith
Warren, Robin
Washington, Martha
Watchmen
Watson, James
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale
Weiss, Brian
What Drink Did
Wild Hogs
Winfrey, Oprah
Wiseman, Richard
Witt, Scott
Woititz, Janet
Wolpert, Edward
Wolpert, Lewis
women
nonverbal cues
self-disclosing
Wonder Woman
Wood, James
Wood, Michelle
word of mouth
X-Files
X-Men
Yalom, Irvin
Yapko, Michael
Yates, Andrea
You Can Heal Your Life
You Just Don’t Understand
You’ve Got Mail
Zener cards
zone of proximal development