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For courses in Introductory Psychology, Critical Thinking, and Research and Experimental Methods How to Think Straight About Psychology helps students build the critical thinking skills needed to independently evaluate psychological information. Author Keith Stanovich teaches students to analyse claims found in the media, to distinguish between pseudoscience and valid psychological research, and to apply psychological knowledge to the world around them. The 11th Edition covers a range of new topics. Fresh examples illustrate psychological principles, pseudoscience and issues obscuring the growing knowledge base in the field.

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About our authors Keith E. Stanovich is currently Emeritus Professor of Applied Psychology and Human Development at the University of Toronto. He is the author of over 175 scientific articles and 8 books. Stanovich is the 2012 recipient of the E. L. Thorndike Career Achievement Award from the American Psychological Association and the recipient of the 2010 Grawemeyer Award in Education. In 2000 he received the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading. Stanovich is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (Divisions 3, 7, 8 and 15) and the Association for Psychological Science.

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