pop psych

Example Sentences

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How a concept created and coined by Carl Jung became the latest pop psych buzzword for self-discovery on social media.

From Los Angeles Times

“Good scientists treat the truth as provisional. They know that science is dynamic and the scientific method is going to lead them to new truths or a refinement of truth, but readers want the one true thing, and in pop psych that means the one true thing that will change their lives.”

From Salon

I feel as if we go through this every few years: a condition, vaguely defined, emerges as the focus of a million quizzes and pop psych columns that encourage us to diagnose those who displease us.

From The Guardian

Something about Close seems to invite this sort of pop-­psych exegesis.

From New York Times

With longstanding decks-compadre Beans, of Belle And Sebastian, in support, the result is a night of must-bop-to hits from the 60s to now – punk, pop, psych, funk and hip-hop.

From The Guardian