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| Preface | |
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| What Is Pseudoscience? | |
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| Science Versus Pseudoscience | |
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| Methodological and Statistical Reasoning | |
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| Why bogus therapies seem to work | |
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| The suggestibility of young children | |
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| On the belief that arthritis pain is related to the weather | |
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| The "Mozart Effect": An example of the scientific method in operation | |
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| Neuroscience and Consciousness | |
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| Whence cometh the myth that we only use 10% of our brains? | |
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| Can minds leave bodies? A cognitive science perspective | |
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| Dream interpretation and false beliefs | |
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| Child Development | |
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| Common myths of children's behavior | |
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| Separating fact from fiction in the etiology and treatment of autism: A scientific review of the evidence | |
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| Project Dare: No effects at 10-year follow-up | |
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| Sensation and Perception | |
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| What's that I smell? The claims of aromatherapy | |
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| What you expect is what you believe (but not necessarily what you get): A test of the effectiveness of subliminal self-help audiotapes | |
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| Psychic crime detectives: A new test for measuring their successes and failures | |
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| Learning and Memory | |
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| Different strokes for different folks? A critique of learning styles | |
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| Past-life identities, UFO abductions, and satanic ritual abuse: The social reconstruction of memories | |
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| Memory recovery techniques in psychotherapy: Problems and pitfalls | |
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| Cognition | |
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| Nostradamus's clever 'clairvoyance': The power of ambiguous specificity | |
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| Like goes with like: The role of representativeness in erroneous and pseudoscientific beliefs | |
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| Some systematic biases of everyday judgment | |
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| Personality and Psychological Testing | |
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| What's wrong with this picture? | |
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| Polygraph testing and sexual abuse: The lure of the magic Lasso | |
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| A position statement by the International Graphonomics Society on the use of graphology in personnel selection testing | |
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| Psychological Disorders and Therapies | |
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| Multiple personality disorder: Witchcraft survives in the twentieth century | |
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| Can we really tap our problems away? A critical analysis of thought field therapy | |
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| Perception of conventional sensory cues as an alternative to the postulated "human energy field" of therapeutic touch | |
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| Social Psychology | |
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| Mass delusions and hysterias: Highlights from the past millennium | |
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| How to sell a pseudoscience | |
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| The social psychology of false confessions: Compliance, internalization, and confabulation | |
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