Popular Myths about Memory

by Brian H. Bornstein

Author	: Brian H. Bornstein
Publisher	: Lexington Books
Total Pages	: 335
Release	: 2017-07-03
Genre	: Psychology
ISBN	: 0739192191

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Misconceptions about memory phenomena often go hand-in-hand with popular misrepresentations of its function in media. In Popular Myths about Memory, Brian H. Bornstein examines how the representation of memory in novels, movies, and television shows often clashes with scientific research. Bornstein discusses the consequences of these myths on the popular understanding of memory and its functions. Depictions of amnesia, eyewitness accounts, and superior memory are just a few of the processes explored and debunked. This book is recommended for scholars interested in psychology, media and film studies, literary studies, and communication studies.

50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology

by Scott O. Lilienfeld

Author	: Scott O. Lilienfeld
Publisher	: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages	: 358
Release	: 2011-09-15
Genre	: Psychology
ISBN	: 1444360744

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50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology uses popular myths as a vehicle for helping students and laypersons to distinguish science from pseudoscience. Uses common myths as a vehicle for exploring how to distinguish factual from fictional claims in popular psychology Explores topics that readers will relate to, but often misunderstand, such as 'opposites attract', 'people use only 10% of their brains', and 'handwriting reveals your personality' Provides a 'mythbusting kit' for evaluating folk psychology claims in everyday life Teaches essential critical thinking skills through detailed discussions of each myth Includes over 200 additional psychological myths for readers to explore Contains an Appendix of useful Web Sites for examining psychological myths Features a postscript of remarkable psychological findings that sound like myths but that are true Engaging and accessible writing style that appeals to students and lay readers alike

Quest for a Suitable Past

by Claudia-Florentina Dobre

Author	: Claudia-Florentina Dobre
Publisher	: Central European University Press
Total Pages	: 328
Release	: 2018-01-29
Genre	: Medical
ISBN	: 9633861365

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The past may be approached from a variety of directions. A myth reunites people around certain values and projects and pushes them in one direction or another. The present volume brings together a range of case studies of myth making and myth breaking in east Europe from the nineteenth century to the present day. In particular, it focuses on the complex process through which memories are transformed into myths. This problematic interplay between memory and myth-making is analyzed in conjunction with the role of myths in the political and social life of the region. The essays include cases of forging myths about national pre-history, about the endorsement of nation building by means of historiography, and above all, about communist and post-communist mythologies. The studies shed new light on the creation of local and national identities, as well as the legitimization of ideologies through myth-making. Together, the contributions show that myths were often instrumental in the vast projects of social and political mobilization during a period which has witnessed, among others, two world wars and the harsh oppression of the communist regimes. ÿ

Mind Myths

by Sergio Della Sala

Author	: Sergio Della Sala
Publisher	:
Total Pages	: 322
Release	: 1999-06-02
Genre	: Medical
ISBN	:

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Mind Myths shows that science can be entertaining and creative. Addressing various topics, this book counterbalances information derived from the media with a 'scientific view'. It contains contributions from experts around the world.

Myth, Memory, Trauma

by Polly Jones

Author	: Polly Jones
Publisher	: Yale University Press
Total Pages	: 439
Release	: 2013-08-27
Genre	: History
ISBN	: 0300187211

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Drawing on newly available materials from the Soviet archives, Polly Jones offers an innovative, comprehensive account of de-Stalinization in the Soviet Union during the Khrushchev and early Brezhnev eras. Jones traces the authorities' initiation and management of the de-Stalinization process and explores a wide range of popular reactions to the new narratives of Stalinism in party statements and in Soviet literature and historiography. Engaging with the dynamic field of memory studies, this book represents the first sustained comparison of this process with other countries' attempts to rethink their own difficult pasts, and with later Soviet and post-Soviet approaches to Stalinism.

The Myth of Repressed Memory

by Elizabeth F. Loftus

Author	: Elizabeth F. Loftus
Publisher	: Macmillan
Total Pages	: 306
Release	: 1996-01-15
Genre	: Medical
ISBN	: 0312141238

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Maintains that there is no controlled scientific evidence that memories of trauma may be "recovered" years later.

Britain and 1940

by Malcolm Smith

Author	: Malcolm Smith
Publisher	: Psychology Press
Total Pages	: 198
Release	: 2000
Genre	: History
ISBN	: 9780415240765

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1940 was the most significant year in European history this century, this book examines what it meant for the people of Britain then and now. Malcolm Smith details the resultant influences that have constructed our national consciousness.

Myths and Memories of the Nation

by Anthony D. Smith

Author	: Anthony D. Smith
Publisher	: Oxford University Press on Demand
Total Pages	: 288
Release	: 1999
Genre	: Political Science
ISBN	: 9780198295341

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Nations and nationalism remain powerful phenomena in the contemporary world. Why do they continue to inspire such passion and attachments? Myths and Memories of the Nation explores the roots of nationalism by examining the myths, symbols and memories of the nation through a 'ethno-symbolic'approach. The book reveals the continuing power of myth and memory to mobilise, define and shape people and their destinies. It examines the variety and durability of ethnic attachments and national identities, and assesses the contemporary revival of ethnic conflicts and nationalism. The bookanalyses the depth of ethnic attachments and the persistence of nations to this day.

Myths and Memories of the Black Death

by Ben Dodds

Author	: Ben Dodds
Publisher	: Springer Nature
Total Pages	: 291
Release	: 2021-12-11
Genre	: History
ISBN	: 3030890589

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This book explores modern representations of the Black Death, a medieval pandemic. The concept of cultural memory is used to examine the ways in which journalists, writers of fiction, scholars and others referred to, described and explained the Black Death from around 1800 onwards. The distant medieval past was often used to make sense of aspects of the present, from the cholera pandemics of the nineteenth-century to the climate crisis of the early twenty-first century. A series of overlapping myths related to the Black Death emerged based only in part on historical evidence. Cultural memory circulates in a variety of media from the scholarly article to the video game and online video clip, and the connections and differences between mediated representations of the Black Death are considered. The Black Death is one of the most well-known aspects of the medieval world, and this study of its associated memories and myths reveals the depth and complexity of interactions between the distant and recent past.