9 Steps for Reversing or Preventing Cancer and Other Diseases 129

60 Minutes 119, 197, 234501 Ways to Boost Your Child’s

Self-Esteem 164

A Beautiful Mind 212, 242A Catcher in the Rye 50A Clockwork Orange 109A Moral Emergency 166Abell, George 202Abelson, Robert 184access to research data 183–4acetylcholine 107Ackerman, Robert 193ACT (test) 88activation-synthesis theory 107actuarial tables 228, 231actus reas 217Adler, Alfred 237adolescence 49–52Adolescence: The Stormy Decade 50Adult Children of Alcoholics 193Adult Children of Alcoholics

(ACOA) 192–5Advertising Age 41After Hours 202age regression 69–73aggression 13–14, 147–51, 165–6alcoholics 192–5, 232–6

Alcoholics Anonymous 232, 233,237

alcoholism 232–612 steps program 233behavioral self-control training

(BSCT) 235controlled drinking 234, 236disease model of 232, 233relapse prevention (RP) programs

235Alexander, Franz 126All That Jazz 60Allen, Woody 62Alzheimer’s disease 59America’s Psychic Challenge 30American Beauty 53American Law Institute (ALI) 218American Psychological Association

clinical psychology division 229ethical standards 183first president 49, 191IQ tests 86Rorschach inkblot test 171–2sexual abuse article 167–8

amnesia 78–81cognitive defects resulting from

80dissociative 74, 76, 77faking of symptoms 80generalized 80

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Analyze This 148, 236Angelica, Jade 166anger 147–51Anger Management 148Angst, Jules 157anterograde amnesia 79–80, 248anti-inflammatory medications

128antisocial behavior 156Antwone Fisher 167aphrodisiacs 123Applied Creative Thinking Workshop

27Arbuthnott, Katherine 95Aristotle 2–3, 34, 147armchair psychology 4–5aromatherapy 123arthritis 12–13artificial somnambulism 101association cortex 24astral projection/travel 111Atwater, Brent 130autism 13, 17, 195–201availability heuristic 89, 210,

219–20

babies 46–9“Baby Einstein” 48Bach, George 148backward subliminal messages

39–40Backwards: The Riddle of Dyslexia

90Bacon, Sir Francis 9Baldi, Camillo 176Bandura, Albert 50, 154Bangerter, Adrian 46Barnum Effect 179, 194–5, 216Barry, Christopher 166base rate information 214, 215,

216Bass, Ellen 167Batman Returns 74Baumeister, Roy 164–6Beck, Aaron 238

behavior therapists 238behavioral training 28believers’ books 4Beltway sniper attacks 212–15Bem, Daryl 32Ben-Shakhar, Gershon 119Bentham, Jeremy 123Bernardin, Cardinal Joseph 70biased sampling 15, 50, 61, 251“Big Five” personality traits 157bipolar disorder 15, 174, 184, 204,

211birth order 156–7Black Dahlia case 221Blake, Robert 219Bleuler, Eugen 18–19, 191Blink: The Power of Thinking

without Thinking 228Blume, Judith 75Bonaparte, Marie 143Boorstin, Daniel 6Bouchard, Thomas 154–5Brady, James 216brain

damage to 22–3electrical stimulation of 23glial cells 24hemispheres, of the brain 25–8hypnosis and 104laterality of function 25unused areas of 23

Brain Age 59brain power 21– 44“brain tuners” 28Branden, Nathaniel 163Breuer, Joseph 71Brickman, Philip 124Brizendine, Louann 145Bronowski, Jacob 4Brown, Larry 37Brown, Pat 213Bull Durham 53Burgess, Anthony 109Burton, Sir Richard 29Bush, G. W. 60, 189, 222

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Bushman, Brad 150, 165Buston, Peter 138Butterfly Effect 74Byrne, Donn 137Byrne, Rhonda 129–30bystander nonintervention 140–2

Campbell, Donald 45–6, 124Campbell, Jennifer 164Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

(CBC) 39cancer, staved off by positive attitude

129–32scientific evidence 131

Cape Fear 209Carnegie, Dale 24Carrie 30catharsis 147–51causation 13–14, 46, 204, 252“Central Park Five” 223Chandler, Jordan 121Chaplin, Charlie 232character reading 175Charlie’s Drunken Daze 232“Chicken Soup” books 55child abuse

personality disturbance and166–9

repressed memories and 75childhood memories 236–9childhood resilience 169–70childhood sexual abuse and

personality disorders 166–71children, diagnostic labels and

185–6Cho, Seung-Hui 210“Choker Chicken” 148“Choking Strangler Boss” 148Chopra, Deepak 130Chowchilla kidnapping 170City Slickers 53clairvoyance 29–30classical music 45–9clinical decision-making 227–31clinical depression 186–9

clinical method of decision-making228, 229

clinical neurology 22–3clinician’s illusion 15Clinton, Bill 193Clinton, Hillary 61, 153Cloud Picture Test 173codependent personality traits,

ACOAs and 194Coffield, Frank 94, 96cognitive-behavioral therapists 238cognitive behavioral therapy,

hypnosis and 73cognitive illusions 7–8Cohen, Jacob 15, 145Cohen, Patricia 15Cohen’s d 145–6coincidences 31Columbine High School 162comas 78, 79, 80command hallucinations 211common sense 5–8, 16, 139, 247

see also hunches; intuitionscommunication, gender differences

143–6Comparison Question Test 118–19,

120complementarity 136Comprehensive System (CS) of

Rorschach 173, 175confessions, false 220–4

characteristics that increaselikelihood of 224

police bias 222reasons for 222

Confessions of Crime 221confirmation bias 119consciousness 100–15controlled drinking 234–6Cook, Steven 70Copycat 213corpus callosum 25, 27correlation 12–14, 46, 88, 156,

164, 167–9, 174, 202, 203–4,252

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Corrigan, Patrick 185Court TV 219courtroom culture 219Coyne, James 131Crick, Francis 158Criminal Minds 213criminal profiling 212–16“crisis”, mesmerism and 100, 101critical thinking 9, 20critomancy 175Cromer, Alan 6CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 213,

219Curse of the Jade Scorpion 102“cycle of child abuse” 166, 169“cycle of violence” hypothesis 13Cypress Knee Projective Technique

173

DABDA 60–2Dahmer, Jeffrey 217Dante, Alighieri 52Dark Knight 209Darley, John 140–1Darwin, Charles 157, 158“Dating Tipster” internet site

136Davies, D. L. 234Davis, Laura 167day residue 106Dead on Sight 71death see dyingdebunking myths, risks of 19–20DeLay, Tom 168Della Sala, Sergio 4Dement, William 109depression, elderly and 58

see also clinical depressionDestructotherapy 149diagnoses

autism 197–8mental health 181–6

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual ofMental Disorders (DSM) 184,185, 195, 197

diagnostic criteria, less stringent forautism 197

diagnostic substitution 198Diana, Princess of Wales, death of

66Diener, Ed 124, 126differential item functioning (DIF)

86–7diffusion of responsibility 141Dindia, Kathryn 146dissociative amnesia 74, 76, 77dissociative identity disorder (DID)

18, 189–92Divine Comedy 52divorce 54

effect on children 170DNA 158Dobson, Dr. James 49–50dogs 250Dowd, Maureen 61Dr. Laura see Schlessinger, LauraDr. Phil see McGraw, PhilDraw-a-Person Test 16Drawing on the Right Side of the

Brain 27dream dictionaries 105dreams 104–8

external stimuli 109interpretation of 106–7interpretation products 107

Dreamscape 30Dukakis, Kitty 241–2Du Maurier, George 101dunking test 117Dunleavy, M. P. 123dying 60–2Dying to Remember 74Dylan, Bob 138dyslexia, myth of letter reversal

89–92causes of 91definition of 90–1

Eagleton, Senator Thomas 240easy answers and quick fixes 10–11

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Eckankar 111ego, Freud’s understanding of 106eHarmony.com 137Ehrsson, Henrik 112Einstein, Albert 24, 252elderly 56–60

and new skills 59–60stereotypes 56–7suicide and 188

electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) 17,239–44

patient views of 241–2portrayal in entertainment media

242–3risks of 241

electroencephalograms (EEGs) 23Elliott, T. S. 192Ellis, Albert 123–4, 238Emlen, Stephen 138emotion and motivation 116–34Employee Polygraph Protection Act

122empty nest syndrome 55epilepsy 25Epley, Nicholas 37ERIC database 94Erickson, Milton 104Erikson, Erik 54Ernst, Cecile 157Esdaile, James 101Euclid 34“evil eye” 34Exner, John 173expert judgment, clinical decisions

and 227–31expertise heuristic 215extramission theory 33–6

origin of 35extrasensory perception (ESP)

29–33eyewitness accounts 67, 72Eysenck, Michael 124

facial feedback hypothesis 249facilitated communication 200

fad diets 10false memories 66, 68–9, 76, 77

hypnosis and 70, 72, 73false positives, lie detector tests and

119feng shui 123film and media

alcohol portrayed in 232–3anger management 148ECT portrayed in 242–3elderly portrayed in 56–7gender differences 143lunar effect 202midlife crisis 53–4misleading portrayals 16–17psychotherapy portrayed in 236repressed memories 74–5romantic attachments 135–9teenagers portrayed in 50see also entries for individual titles

“fireside inductions” 4first instinct fallacy 87–8flashbulb memories 66–7Fletcherizing 123Flutie, Doug 197folk psychology 6, 10Follette, Victoria 76Forrest Gump 167Foster, Jodie 213, 217Frank, Lawrence 171Frankl, Victor 237Franklin, Benjamin 101Franklin, George 69, 70Frasier 60fraternal twins 124, 160Frederickson, Renee 75Freedom Writers 95Frensch, Peter 194Friday the 13th 209Friends 109Freud, Anna 49, 51Freud, Sigmund 38, 65, 71, 75,

106, 126, 143, 147, 154, 175,236

Fringe 30

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Ganzfeld technique 32–3Garden of Lies 78Gardner, Howard 94Garfield, Bob 41Geller, Uri 22general intelligence factor 83general mental ability see general

intelligence factorgeneralized anxiety disorder 128genes 154–6, 158, 159–62Genesis (rock band) 143Gerberding, Julie 197Gergen, Kenneth 142Gestalt therapy 237–8Ghostbusters 30Gilovich, Thomas 126Girl, Interrupted 50Gladwell, Malcolm 228Goldberg, Herb 148Goldberg, Lewis 229Golden Rule Insurance Company et al.

v. Washburn et al. (1984) 85Golding, Jonathan 75Good Will Hunting 236Goodman, Dr. Shivani 129Goodman, Gail 77Gore, Al 40–1Gothika 213Gotlib, Ian 54Gottesman, Irving 192Gould, Stephen Jay 20Graduate Record Exam (GRE) 86,

88graphologists, employment of 176graphology 16, 175–9

analytic approach 176history of 176rationales for 177–8

graphotherapeutics 177Gray, John 17, 144–5, 146Great Fourfold Table of Life, The

11–12, 169–71Great Ideas of Psychology 183Greenwald, Anthony 40grief 60–2

Groundhog Day 53Grove, William 229–30Gruwell, Erin 95Gudjonsson, Gisli 222“guilty but mentally ill” (GBMI)

verdict 218

Hall, G. Stanley 49, 191Hall, Judith 146Halloween 209hallucinations, command 211handshakes 249handwriting and personality traits

175–9happiness

external circumstances and 122–6genetic influence 124life events 125marital stability and 137money 125older people 58

Harris, Eric 162, 165, 166Harris, Judith Rich 153, 160Harris, Youree Dell 29Harsch, Nicole 66Hartmann, Heinz 155–6Hays, Louise 129head injuries 79, 80–1head trauma 23Healing Cancer & Your Mind 130health professionals

decision-making by 227–31diagnostic labels 181–6views on adolescence 50

Heath, Chip 46heavy metal rock bands 39–40Hecht, Jennifer Michael 122hedonic treadmill 124–5Helicobacter (H.) pylori 127–8Helms, Heather 55heritability 158–62

definition of 159estimation of 160of intelligence 161

Hernandez, Jorge 223

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Herrnstein, Richard 159Hill, John 50Hinckley, John 217–18Hippocrates 201Hitler, Adolph 162Hobson, J. Allan 107Hoffer, Eric 123Hollywood see film and mediaHolmbeck, Grayson 50homophily 137Honey, Peter 94Honey-Mumford model of learning

94, 95Honorton, Charles 32Horgan, John 5Horwitz, Allan 183House on Haunted Hill 17How to Be Twice as Smart 21How to Win Friends and Influence

People 24Hudson Institute 53–4human figure drawing 16hunches 5–6, 67, 87–9 see also

common sense; intuitions Hyde, Janet 145, 146Hyman, Ronald 93Hyperdictionary of Dreams 105hypnoanalysis 71hypnopaedia see sleep assisted

learninghypnosis 19, 69–73, 100–4

neurobiology of 104stage shows 102

HypnosisDownloads 54

id 106, 107, 108identical twins 124, 154–5, 156,

160illusory correlation 12–13, 169,

174, 203–4, 210illusory placebo effect 40In Like Flint 71In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics

and the Uses of HumanHeredity 158

inkblots 171–5Innocence Project 222insanity defense 216–20intelligence

elderly and 59Gottfredson’s definition of 83–4heritability of 161infants and music 45–9and learning 83–99

International Graphoanalysis Society176

internet dating 136–7interrogation 223, 224intuitions 1, 4, 5, 6, 227–31, 247

see also common sense; hunchesInvasion of the Space Preachers 102IQ

heritability of 161Mozart Effect and 45–9test bias 83–7

Isaacson, Cliff 156–7It Happened One Night 136It Takes a Village 153Ivins, Dr. Bruce 220–1

Jackson, Michael 121, 219Jacques, Elliott 52–3James, William 24, 66Janet, Pierre 71Jefferson, Tyrone 157Jensen, Arthur 173Johnny English 121Judas Priest 39Judge Judy 219Julius Caesar 73Jumping Jack Flash 121Jung, Carl 237

Kahneman, Daniel 124Karr, John Mark 221Kasir Kasab, Azam 121Kassin, Saul 223Kelly, George 4Kelly, Ivan 203Kendall-Tackett, Kathleen 168

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Kennedy, J. F., assassination of 66Kennedy, Robert F. Jr. 196kernel of truth 17

adolescence 51dying 61IQ test bias 86left/right brained 25lunar effect 205midlife crisis 54opposites attract 138

Kevles, Daniel 158Key, Wilson Brian 39Kids 50King, Stephen 48King of Queens 59King of the Hill 143Kirby, David 196–7Kiss the Girls 71Klebold, Dylan 162, 165, 166Klopfer, Bruno 171Knocked Up 136koro 250Kowalski, Patricia 37, 122Kratzig, Gregory 95Kristberg, Wayne 193Krueger, Joachim 164Kübler-Ross, Elisabeth 60

Five Stages of Grief 60–2

Langer, Ellen 184language, difference between men

and women 143–5Larry P. v. Riles (1980) 85Latane, Bibb 140–2latent content of dreams 106Law and Order 219LeCrone, Hap 49Learning Styles Inventory 92, 94learning styles matched by teaching

styles 92–6four steps of 93

Leaving Las Vegas 233Lee, John 148left or right brained myth 25–8

origins of 27–8

Lehman, Darrin 62Leman, Kevin 156Lenggenhager, Bigna 113lie detector see polygraph testLie to Me 116Lieber, Arnold 202Lindbergh, Charles 221literalism, hypnotism and 104Lloyd, Eddie Joe 223Locke, John 123Loewenberg, Lauri Quinn 105Loftus, Elizabeth 68, 70Loftus, Geoffrey 70Logue, Mary Beth 194Lohr, Jeffrey 151Long Kiss Goodnight 79low self-esteem 162–6Lucas, Henry Lee 222lunar effect 201–5lying 116–22

bodily cues 116Lykken, David 119, 120, 122,

154

magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)23

magnetism 100, 101Maid in Manhattan 136major depression see clinical

depressionmale-female communication 143–6Manhunt (video game) 149manifest content of dreams 106Maraniss, David 193“Mars and Venus” books 144–5Marshall, Barry 126Marston, William Moulton 117,

122Match.com 137Mayes, Larry 70McCain, John 176, 197McCarley, Robert 107McCarthy, Jenny 197McCloskey, Michael 7McClure, Erin 146

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McConkey, Kevin 103McCutcheon, Lynn 136, 220McDermott, Kathleen 68McGraw, Dr Phil 4, 50McNally, Richard 74, 76Me, Myself, and Irene 190mechanical method of decision-

making 228, 229objections to 229–31

media reports, and Mozart Effect46–7

media stereotypeselderly 56–7teenage years 50

Medical Hypotheses 14medicine, misconceptions in 251Medium 30Meehl, Paul 4, 179, 228–9, 230,

231Meet the Parents 117–18, 121Mehl, Matthias 145Memento 80memorable co-occurrences 11–13memory 65–81

hardening 72illusions 68loss 58–9reconstructive nature of 67schematic 67–8selective 11–13source monitoring confusion 67

mens rea 217mental illness 181–208

informal labeling 185portrayed in media 209, 211stigma of 181–6and violence 209–12

Mesmer, Franz Anton 100–1mesmerism 100–1meta-analysis 32, 145, 167, 178,

215metoposcopy 175Michon, Abbé Jean-Hippolyte 176Midlife Club 53midlife crisis 52–5

Midnight Cowboy 167Millennium 213Miller, Zell 47Milton, Julie 32Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 46Mind over Money: Your Path to

Wealth and Happiness 123“Minnesota Twin” study 154–5Minority Report 30Mischel, Walter 153, 155Miss Cleo’s Psychic Hotline 29MMR vaccine 198, 201M’Naughten rule 218Money and Happiness: A Guide to

Living the Good Life 123Money Can Buy Happiness: How to

Spend to Get the Life You Want123

mood enhancing crystals 123moon 201–5Morse code 109Moulton, Charles see Marston,

William MoultonMozart Effect 45–9multiple choice tests, changing

answers on 87–9multiple personality disorder

189–92Mumford, Alan 94Murray, Charles 159My Own Worst Enemy 190Myers-Briggs Type Indicator 94Mysterious Skin 74Mystic River 167mythbusting, everyday life and

251“Mythbusting Kit” 9–19

Nader, Ralph 84naïve realism 11Naked Gun 33 1/3 90Nancy Grace 214, 219narcissism 165–6, 173narcissistic injury 165Nash, John 242

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Nash, Michael 72Nason, Susan 69National Academy of Science 28,

86National Association for Self-Esteem

163, 166National Public Radio 90National Research Council 22, 30,

120Nature 45Neisser, Ulric 66neo-Freudians 237Network 148neurons 24neuropsychology 22neurosurgery 23Nida, Steve 142Nightmare on Elm Street 209Nixon, President Richard 219nonverbal cues, women and 144,

145, 146non-western cultures, teenagers in

51–2Norcross, John 237norepinephrine 107nurture assumption 153–6

Obama, Barack 61, 177, 197Office Space 148Olson, Harry 236–7omphalomancy 175On Her Majesty’s Secret Service

102On the Record 213One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest

242–3onychomancy 175Opening Skinner’s Box: Great

Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century 183

opportunity cost 8–9optical illusions 7–8ordeal of water 117Ordinary People 50, 242Ornstein, Robert 27

Orton, Samuel 90out-of-body experiences (OBEs)

110–13brain location of 113

Outer Limits 30Overboard 81Overcome Midlife Crisis 54

Packard, Vance 38palmistry 175Pantle, Mark 219Paragon Learning Style Inventory

95paranormal 29–33parenting 153–6Pasewark, Richard 219Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult

Life 53past life regression therapy 72–3Peale, Norman Vincent 162–3Pearl Harbor 90Pearson, Karl 158Peek, Kim 199Penn, David 185peptic ulcers 126–9Perfect Daughters 193Perls, Frederick 237–8personality myths 153–80personality traits

ACOAs 193–4romantic attraction and 137

phenylketonuria (PKU) 161Phillips, Kelly-Anne 131phonemes 91phosphenes 35phrenology 3, 13, 175physiognomy 175Piaget, Jean 34place names 249placebo effect 14, 28, 40, 101,

123Plato 34pluralistic ignorance 141Plutarch 201policy-makers 9

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Polusny, Melissa 76polygraph test 4, 116–22

countermeasures 120machine 117physiological activity 117–18

Poole, Debra 75Pope, Harrison 77Popper, Sir Karl 120popular press/media 46, 74–5positron emission tomography (PET)

scanners 23post hoc, ergo propter hoc reasoning

14–15, 132, 151, 156, 165Prager, Dennis 5, 6precognition 30Preparing for Adolescence 50Primal Fear 209primal therapy 149priming words/pictures 37Profiler 213“projectiology” 111projective techniques 173proverbs 1, 137Proulx, Christine 55pseudopatients 181–2psi-related experiences 29–30psychiatric labels 181–6

positive effects of 185–6Psycho 209psychoanalysis 74, 75psychodynamic therapists 237psychokinesis 29Psychological Bulletin 32, 167psychological research, effect on

bystander intervention 142“psychological X-ray” 171psychology and the law 209–26psychomythology, meaning of term

2P. T. Barnum statements see

Barnum EffectPuysugaur, Marquis de 101

Quantum Healing 130quick fixes 10–11

Race, Victor 101Radish, Kris 157Rain Man 17–18, 199Rain Man Effect 198Raison, Charles 204Ramsey, JonBenet 221–2rapid eye movement (REM) sleep

107Read, J. Don 40Reagan, President Ronald 216reasoning by representativeness

15–16, 242Rebel Without a Cause 50recognition threshold 38recovered traumatic memory 69–73reflexivity 4refutational messages 35Reid, Thomas 5representativeness heuristic 15–16,

34, 75, 81, 85, 93, 127, 174,178

repression of memories, no scientificevidence of 76

Repressions 74research, scrutiny of 193–4, 203,

234retina 35retrograde amnesia 79Rhine, Joseph Banks 31rice test 117Rind, Bruce 167–9Robinson, Daniel 183Robinson, Tom 57Roediger, Henry 68Rogers, Carl 237romantic attraction 135–9Rorschach, Hermann 171Rorschach Inkblot Test 171–5

detection in thought disorders 174diagnostic usefulness 174

Rosenhan, David 181–5Rosoff, Barbara 93Ross, Colin 34–5Ross, Lee 11Roth, Tim 116

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Rotton, James 203Rowley, Laura 123Ruscio, John 184

safety in numbers 139–42Sagan, Carl 9, 25, 247Salmon, Matt 168Samantha Who? 79Santa Who? 78Satanic messages 39–40Saul, Leon 236savant syndrome 17, 199–200Savitsky, Kenneth 126Scanners 30schemas 67–8Schiavo, Terri 23schizophrenia 14–15, 18–19, 174,

181, 189–92, 211origin of term 18, 191

Schlessinger, Laura 168Schmolck, Heike 67Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT)

84–5, 86, 88school shootings 162Schwarz, Norbert 19–20scientific method 9Segal, Nancy 155selection bias 169selective perception and memory

11–13self-esteem 162–6

in educational and occupationalpractices 163

and violence 165Self-Esteem Games 163–4“Self-Esteem Question Desk” 164self-help books 3, 24, 30

anger management 148Mars and Venus books 144–5

Seligman, Martin 124senility prayer 58–9seniors 56–60sensory threshold 37–8sexual abuse 71, 75–6, 77, 121,

166–9

sexual activity, elderly and 58Shaffer, Thomas 175Shakespeare, William 34, 124,

201Shallow Hal 102shared environment 154–6, 160Sheehy, Gail 53Shek, Daniel 54Sheldrake, Rupert 34Shepard, Roger 7Shepard’s Tables 7–8Sheppard, Edith 236Sher, Kenneth 193, 194–5shock therapy see electroconvulsive

therapyshopping mall study 68–9Short, Elizabeth 221silent classroom scenario 141silent cortex 24Silva Ultra Mind Seminar 30simple detection threshold 38Simpson, O. J. 67, 219 Skuse, David 169Slater, Lauren 183–4sleep assisted learning 108–10sleep paralysis 77–8snap judgments 5–6, 228Snyder, Mark 68Snyder, Thoburn 236Sobell, Mark and Linda 234social learning theory 154“Soulmatch” internet site 136Spearman, Charles 83speed reading 11Sperry, Roger 25, 26Spiegel, David 131–2Spitzer, Robert 181–3split brain patients 25–6, 27split personality 189–92stage whispers technique 102Stargate program 30Stern, Wilhelm 173Stir of Echoes 30Storm, Lance 32strephosymbolia 90

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stereotypesECT 240elderly 56influence on memory 68

Stevenson, Robert Louis 190stigma 181–6strokes 23, 248subliminal messages 36–41, 108Subliminal Seduction 39substance abuse disorders 211suicide 186–9Suitbert, Ertel 32Sulloway, Frank 157Summer of Sam 209Sundquist, Don 47superbabies 48–9Superman 35–6synesthesia 248

talkativeness, women and mencompared 145–6

Tannen, Deborah 144tapetum lucidum 35Task Force on Self-Esteem and

Personal and SocialResponsibility 163

tasseography 175Tavris, Carol 151Taylor, Annette 37, 122teenagers 49–52telepathy 29Tellegen, Auke 154Temerlin, Maurice 184ten sources of error 9–19terminological confusion 18–19Texas Chain Saw Massacre 209The Adult Children of Alcoholics

Syndrome 193The Bell Curve: Intelligence and

Class Structure in American Life158–9

The Birth Order Effect: How toBetter Understand Yourself andOthers 157

The Bourne Identity 78

The Bourne Supremacy 78The Bourne Ultimatum 78The Butcher’s Wife 30The Clinton Enigma 193The Color Purple 167The Courage to Heal 167The Days of Wine and Roses 233The Dead Zone 30The Female Brain 145The Flintstones 143The Garden Murders 101The Happiness Myth 122The Hidden Persuaders 38The Honeymooners 143“The Hulk” 147The Hypnotic Eye 101The Iceman-Confessions of a Mafia

Hitman 221The Interpretation of Dreams 106The Lost Weekend 232The Manchurian Candidate 101The Moment of Truth 117The New Birth Order Book: Why

You Are the Way You Are 156The Oprah Winfrey Show 73, 194The Power of Positive Thinking

163The Reformation of an Alcoholic

232The Resurrection Syndrome 71The Right Mind: Making Sense of

the Hemispheres 27The Savages 57The Secret 129–30The Sender 30The Silence of the Lambs 213The Simpsons 57, 60, 143The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem 163The Sixth Sense 30The Sopranos 57, 105, 236The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and

Mr. Hyde 190“Thinkblot” 171thimerosal 196–7, 198third variable problem 13

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Thirteen 50Thomas, Lowell 24Tomatis, Alfred 45toys 48Trading Places 158“trance state” 100–4traumatic events 236

hypnosis and 71primal therapy and 149repressed memories of 74

Trilby 101True Lies 121truth serum 121Turkheimer, Eric 161Twain, Mark 6, 36, 69Twilight Zone 30twins

fraternal 160identical 154–5, 160virtual 155

ulcers, caused by stress myth 126–9Underworld: Rise of the Lycans

202Uranowitz, Seymour 68US Federal Communications

Commission (FCC) 39US National Academy of Sciences

28US National Research Council 22,

30, 120

vaccines 13, 196–201Valdez-Menchaca, Marta 185VAK model of learning 94, 95van Zandt, Clint 213Vasconcellos, John 163verbal communication 10Vicary, James 38–9Virginia Tech 210virtual twins 155

Vohs, Kathleen 164Vokey, John 40Voltaire 6Vygotsky, Lev 48–9

Wakefield, Jerome 183Wallerstein, Judith 170Warren, Robin 126–7Washington, Martha 123, 124, 125Watchmen 171Watson, James 158Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale 83Weiss, Brian 73What Drink Did 232Wild Hogs 53Winfrey, Oprah 130Wiseman, Richard 32Witt, Scott 21–2Woititz, Janet 193Wolpert, Edward 109Wolpert, Lewis 6women

nonverbal cues 144, 145, 146self-disclosing 146

Wonder Woman 117, 122Wood, James 173Wood, Michelle 185word of mouth 10, 251

X-Files 30X-Men 30

Yalom, Irvin 237Yapko, Michael 71, 75Yates, Andrea 210, 217You Can Heal Your Life 129You Just Don’t Understand 144You’ve Got Mail 136

Zener cards 31zone of proximal development 49

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