Editing Popular psychology (section)

==Types==
Popular psychology commonly takes the form of:
* [[self-help]] books, for example ''The Road Less Travelled'', by [[M. Scott Peck]];
* [[advice column|advice]] dispensed through radio, TV, and print; for example [[Dear Abby]], [[Dr. Phil (TV series)|''Dr. Phil'']] and [[Dan Savage]];
* [[mythology|myths]] such as "[[Ten percent of the brain myth|People use only about 10 percent of their brain's capacity]]";<ref>Standing, Lionel G., and Huber, Herman. (2003) "Do Psychology Courses Reduce Belief in Psychological Myths?" ''Social Behaviour and Personality'', 31(6), 585-592</ref>
* terminology that may have a basis in psychology, but which appears more frequently in the vernacular than in professional discourse&mdash;for example, [[inner child]], [[lateralization of brain function|left brain/right brain]], [[emotional intelligence]], [[Freudian slip]], and [[Enneagram of Personality|enneagram]];
* public perceptions about psychological methodologies that have not been scientifically validated, such as [[neuro-linguistic programming]];<ref name="Devilly 2005">Grant J. Devilly (2005) [https://www.doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-1614.2005.01601.x Power Therapies and possible threats to the science of psychology and psychiatry]  Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry Vol.39 p.437</ref>
* [[urban legend]]s such as "Psychologist [[B. F. Skinner]] raised his own daughter in a '[[Operant conditioning chamber|Skinner box]]' "<ref>[http://www.snopes.com/science/skinner.asp "One Man and a Baby Box"], [[Snopes|snopes.com]], retrieved 2006-03-13.</ref>