Popular Psychology: word count & book length

Research on the mind and behaviour translated for general readers, often with practical takeaways.

• Signal which claims rest on replicated research and which are emerging.

Popular psychology (sometimes shortened as pop psychology or pop psych) refers to the concepts and theories about human mental life and behavior that are supposedly based on psychology and are considered credible and accepted by the wider populace. The concept is cognate with the human potential movement of the 1950s and 1960s. The term pop psychologist can be used to describe authors, consultants, lecturers, and entertainers who are widely perceived as being psychologists, not because of their academic credentials, but because they have projected that image or have been perceived in that way in response to their work.

From the Wikipedia article “Popular psychology”, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.