Editing Popular psychology (section)

===Current status of popular psychology===
In his Presidential Address to the APA in 1969, [[George Armitage Miller]] was hopeful for psychology's future stating, "that the real impact of psychology will be felt, ... through its effects on the public at large, through a new and different public conception of what is humanly possible and what is humanly desirable."<ref>{{cite journal |last=Miller |first=G.A. |title=Psychology as a means of promoting human welfare |journal=American Psychologist |volume=24 |year=1969 |issue=12 |page=1066|doi=10.1037/h0028988 }}</ref>

Current events influence the popularity of areas in psychology. During 2020 and 2021 many of the most popular psychology articles were about COVID-19 and even Zoom fatigue.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Palmer |first=C |date=January 1, 2022 |title=The top 10 journal articles |url=https://www.apa.org/monitor/2022/01/top-journal-articles |access-date=January 28, 2023 |website=American Psychological Association}}</ref> The APA's most downloaded journal articles frequently include research about social media.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Shackleford |first=Karen |date=April 2022 |title=Psychology of Popular Media is, well, popular. |url=https://doi.org/10.1037/ppm0000406 |journal=Psychology of Popular Media |language=en |volume=11 |issue=2 |pages=109–110 |doi=10.1037/ppm0000406 |s2cid=248196930 |issn=2689-6575}}</ref> Social media frequently spreads misinformation about health,<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Suarez-Lledo |first1=Victor |last2=Alvarez-Galvez |first2=Javier |date=2021-01-20 |title=Prevalence of Health Misinformation on Social Media: Systematic Review |url=https://www.jmir.org/2021/1/e17187 |journal=Journal of Medical Internet Research |language=EN |volume=23 |issue=1 |pages=e17187 |doi=10.2196/17187 |pmc=7857950 |pmid=33470931 |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Puri |first1=Neha |last2=Coomes |first2=Eric A. |last3=Haghbayan |first3=Hourmazd |last4=Gunaratne |first4=Keith |date=2020-11-01 |title=Social media and vaccine hesitancy: new updates for the era of COVID-19 and globalized infectious diseases |url=https://doi.org/10.1080/21645515.2020.1780846 |journal=Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics |volume=16 |issue=11 |pages=2586–2593 |doi=10.1080/21645515.2020.1780846 |issn=2164-5515 |pmc=7733887 |pmid=32693678}}</ref> and this could extend to mental health misinformation. [[Psychobabble]] can be used on social media to spread this misinformation. However, social media can be a place where pop psychology is used to spread mental health awareness.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Latha |first1=K. |last2=Meena |first2=K. S. |last3=Pravitha |first3=M. R. |last4=Dasgupta |first4=Madhuporna |last5=Chaturvedi |first5=S. K. |date=2020-01-01 |title=Effective use of social media platforms for promotion of mental health awareness |journal=Journal of Education and Health Promotion |language=en |volume=9 |issue=1 |pages=124 |doi=10.4103/jehp.jehp_90_20 |issn=2277-9531 |pmc=7325786 |pmid=32642480 |doi-access=free }}</ref>