The Quick Fix: Why Fad Psychology Can't Cure Our Social Ills by Jesse Singal ’13

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By Jesse Singal ’13

Published Sept. 23, 2020

In The Quick Fix: Why Fad Psychology Can't Cure Our Social Ills (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), Jesse Singal ’13 discusses the limitations of pop psychology and self-help materials, arguing that these put limitations on social science’s ability to dig deeper into the issues.

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