Psy-Q

You know your IQ - now test your psychological intelligence

Ben Ambridge

• Publisher: Profile Books
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN:
  9781781252109
• eBook ISBN:
  9781782830238
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: History & Theory in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

Psychology is everywhere. Our emotions and desires, the decisions we make on a daily basis - absolutely every aspect of the way we think and feel has been studied by psychologists. Through dozens of interactive puzzles, IQ tests, quizzes, jokes, puns and visual illusions, Ben Ambridge guides us through this wealth of research, showing us how we can better understand ourselves.

Debunking tabloid speculation, revisiting old favourites such as the Stanford Prison Experiment and unearthing bleeding edge research unknown to the general reader, renowned psychologist Ben Ambridge blows away the received wisdom to reveal to enthusiasts and novices alike the psychology behind our daily lives.

With wit and humour aplenty, he explains whether your blue eyes make you more or less trustworthy, how analogies can help cure cancer, whether Rorschach's famous inkblot tests really work, what your love for heavy metal (or Mozart) says about you, how psychology could help solve the obesity crisis and countless other revealing, entertaining and downright astonishing tests of your Psy-Q.

Visit Ben's accompanying website, http://benambridge.wordpress.com/, and test yourself - and your friends.

Table of contents

• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Preface: Psychology Is Everything
• The Raw Shark Test
• A Dirty Joke
• Your Personality Profile
• It’s All Chinese to Me
• Spot the Deference
• How Many Clinical Psychologists Does It Take To Change a Light Bulb?
• Professional Psychopaths
• I Just Can’t Wait
• Take It or Leave It?
• Are You Stupider than a Monkey?
• A Straightforward Question
• The Tragic Tale of Kitty Genovese
• The Necker Cube
• Anchors Away
• A Shocking Experiment
• Mission to Mars
• Carrot or Stick?
• Liar, Liar
• Lyer, Lyer
• The Line-Length Illusion
• A Barking-Mad Test?
• Your Perfect Partner
• Digital Love
• St Valentine’s Day: Massacred?
• The Tea Test
• Reading and Righting
• Prelude or Requiem?
• The Patient
• The Radiologist
• The Surgeon
• The Doctor
• The Health Minister
• Red or Black?
• Track the Attacker
• Morality Play
• The Arts Critic
• Card Trick 1
• Morality Play: Agree/Stongly Agree
• Card Trick 2
• ‘All I Have To Do Is Dream’
• The Interpretation of Dreams
• Morality Play: Disagree/Stongly Disagree
• The March of Time
• It Feels So Right
• Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus
• Focus on Your Knitting
• The pSHEchologist
• Quoth the Raven’s ‘What’s My Score?’
• The Fool Hath Said in His Heart, ‘There Is No God’
• Idiocracy?
• Stereo Types
• Horoscope Horror Show?
• Are You a Conspiracy Theorist?
• What a Shape Sounds Like
• What a Shape Tastes Like
• What’s in a Face? #1
• Tips for Dancers?
• What’s in a Name?
• Hitler’s Sweater
• Getting All EmotIQnal
• Be on Your Guard
• What’s in a Face? #2: The Talking Dog
• Literacy Test
• Roll Play
• A Trivial Pursuit
• What’s in a Face? #3: Brown-Eyed Girl
• At My Wick’s End
• Under Pressure
• Spare the Rod and Spoil the Child?
• Video Gains?
• Shut Your Face(book)?
• Cake Addicts
• The Vanishing Ghost
• That Sinking Feeling
• Can’t Stand Losing You
• Stick or Switch?
• Mind over Matter
• Your Memory Is Limitless
• Do Humans Dream of Electric Sheep?
• Can Psychology Save the World?
• Prescient Palmistry?
• Can Psychology Save the World?: You Chose Split
• What’s in a Face? #4: Face-Off
• The Psychology of Pain
• A Sinister Questionnaire
• The ‘I’s Have It
• Write Stuff or Write-Off?
• Can Psychology Save the World?: You Chose Steal
• YOU Are the Psychologist
• Continuing Your Psych-Odyssey
• References
• Credits