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Ruscio (psychology, Elizabethtown College) offers psychology students guidance on critical thinking in the field, covering the general areas of deception, self-deception, psychological tricks, and decision making and ethics. The first edition, Clear Thinking with Psychology , for which no date is mentioned, is here updated and somewhat rearranged. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Do you have the tools to distinguish between the true science of human thought and behavior from pop psychology? John Ruscio's book provides a tangible and compelling framework for making that distinction. Because we are inundated with "scientific" claims, the author does not merely differentiate science and pseudoscience, but goes further to teach the fundamentals of scientific reasoning upon which you can base your evaluation of information.
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