Psy-Q: You know your IQ - now test your psychological intelligence

TY - BOOK

T1 - Psy-Q

T2 - You know your IQ - now test your psychological intelligence

AU - Ambridge, Ben

N1 - [Main author] 1 online resource (440 p.) Description based upon print version of record. 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 Contents: Digital LoveSt 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?' Contents: 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 Contents: Can't Stand Losing YouStick 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 Summary: 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 themStanford Prison Experiment and unearthing bleeding edge research unknown to the general reader, renowned psychologist Ben Ambridge blows away

PY - 2014

Y1 - 2014

KW - Educational tests and measurements. Emotional intelligence tests. Emotional intelligence. Success in business. Work -- Psychological aspects.

M3 - Book

SN - 1-78283-023-5

BT - Psy-Q

PB - Profile Books Ltd

CY - London

ER -