Tall Tales About the Mind and Brain: Separating Fact From Fiction

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Oxford University Press (2007)
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Tall tales presents a sweeping survey of common myths about the mind and brain. In a lighthearted and accessible style, it exposes the truth behind these beliefs, how they are perpetuated, why people believe them, and why they might even exist in the first place.

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Biology and intelligence: the race/IQ controversy.Mike Anderson
The myth of the clonable human brain.Giovanni Berlucchi
Can mind conquer cancer?Barry L. Beyerstein, Wallace I. Sampson, Zarka Stojanovic & Handel & James
Graphology - a total write-off.Barry L. Beyerstein
The neurology of the weird: brain states and anamalous experience.Barry L. Beyerstein
Out on a limb: neglect and confabulation in the study of aplasic phantoms.Peter Brugger & Marion Funk
Is bigger really better? The search for brain size and intelligence in the twenty-first century.David P. Carey
Is bigger really better? The search for brain size and intelligence in the 21st century.David Carey
The power of the full moon. Running on empty?Eric H. Chudler
Setting the record (or video camera) straight on memory: the video camera model of memory and other memory myths.Seema L. Clifasefi, Maryanne Garry & Loftus & Elizabeth
Imagery and blindness.Cesare Cornoldi & Rossana De Beni
The dual-brain myth.Michael C. Corballis
The legend of the magical number seven.Nelson Cowan, Candice C. Morey & Chen & Zhijian
Imagery and blindness.Cesare Cornoldi & DeBeni & Rossana
Cognitive factors underlying paranormal beliefs and experiences.Christopher C. French & Krissy Wilson
Something wicked this way comes: Causes and interpretations of sleep paralysis.Christopher C. French & Julia Santomauro
Out on a limb: neglect and confabulation in the study of aplasic phantoms.Peter Brugger & Funk & Marion
Creative thinking: the mystery myth.Ken Gilhooly
Ouija, dowsing, and other seductions of ideomotor action.Ray Hyman
Talking with the dead, communicating with the future and other myths created by cold reading.Ray Hyman
Critically thinking about paranormal belief.Peter Lamont
The truth about deception.Aldert Vrij & Mann & Samantha
The Merry Vibes of Wintzer: the tale of foreign accent syndrome.Nick Miller
The powers and perils of intuition.David G. Myers
The magic in the brain; how conjuring works to deceive our minds.Massimo Polidoro
The refined Mozart effect: let's enjoy the music.Colin Gray & Sala & Sergio Della
The refined Mozart effect: it's time to face the music.Colin Gray & Sala & Sergio Della
Something wicked this way comes: causes and interpretations of sleep paralysis.Christopher C. French & Santomauro & Julia
The elusive search for a "gay gene".Fernando Saravi
The more, the merrier: facts and beliefs about the bilingual mind.Antonella Sorace
We've got the whole child witness thing figured out, or have we?Rachel Sutherland, Deryn Strange & Garry & Maryanne
We have got the whole child witness thing figured out, or have we?Rachel Sutherland, Deryn Strange & Maryanne Garry
The myth of the incredible eyewitness.Amina Memon & Thomson & Don
Inducing out-of-body experiences.Olaf Blanke & Thut & Gregor
To sleep, perchance to REM? The rediscovered role of emotion and meaning in dreams.Mark Solms & Turnbull & Oliver
The truth about deception.Aldert Vrij & Samantha Mann
Cognitive factors underlying paranormal beliefs and experiences.Christopher C. French & Wilson & Krissy

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