Psych Experiments: From Pavlov's dogs to Rorschach's inkblots, put psychology's most fascinating studies to the test

by Michael A. Britt

Psychology's most famous theories--played out in real life! Forget the labs and lecture halls. You can conduct your very own psych experiments at home! Famous psychological experiments--from Freud's ego to the Skinner box--have changed the way science views human behavior. But how do these tests really work? In Psych Experiments, you'll learn how to test out these theories and experiments for yourself...no psychology degree required! Guided by Michael A. Britt, creator of popular podcast The Psych Files, you can conduct your own experiments when browsing your favorite websites (to test the "curiosity effect"), in restaurants (learning how to increase your tips), when presented with advertisements (you'd be surprised how much you're influenced by the color red), and even right on your smartphone (and why you panic when you can't find it). You'll even figure out how contagious yawning works! With this compulsively readable little book, you won't just read about the history of psychology--you'll live it!

Genres: Psychology, Nonfiction, Science

274 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 2, 2016

Reviews

[Ola]

Ciekawy koncept przedstawienia eksperymentów psychologicznych w wymiarze odpowiednim dla laika, ale! Za dużo było tych badań przytoczonych, przez co każde zajmowało tylko kilka stron. 🤨😔 i po przeczytaniu mam wrażenie, że zostało powiedziane dużo i jednocześnie bardzo niewiele. Wolałabym mniej eksperymentów, więcej treści i szczegółów na ich temat. Szkoda! Co nie zmienia jednak faktu, że np dla nastolatka zajaranego psychologią mogłaby to być super pozycja!

[Maher Razouk]

الاستجابات الشرطية ...


في كتابه (Psych Experiments) الصادر عام 2016 ، و الذي يحتوي العديد من التجارب العلمية والنفسية ، يقول مؤلف الكتاب و أستاذ علم النفس (مايكل برايت) :

نحن لسنا مختلفين كثيراً عن الكلاب في نهاية الأمر !!

يشير (مايكل) بكلامه هذا إلى تجربة (بافلوف) الشهيرة على الكلاب ، و يشرح كيف يمكن أن نجري هذه التجربة بكل بساطة على البشر !!

فهذه التجربة قد أجريت فعلا على البشر من قبل ، في إحدى المدارس ، حيث طلب من أحد الطلاب أن يقرأ بعض الكلمات المتنوعة و المكررة ، و في كل مرة كان يلفظ كلمة (كرسي) كان المعلم أمامه يرشه برذاذ الماء ، فيرمش أو يغمز بعينه بسبب الماء ... و عندما تكررت العملية عدة مرات ، أصبح الطالب يرمش عندما تلفظ كلمة (كرسي) أمامه حتى دون أن يرشه المعلم بالماء !!

يقول (مايكل) : ألم تشعر من قبل بالاستياء أو عدم الراحة عندما ذهبت لزيارة أحد ما في المستشفى !؟
إن ذلك يحدث لأن الأصوات و الروائح والمشاهد في المشفى قد ارتبطت لدينا بشعور القلق وعدم الراحة و المرض !!
إن ما لاحظه (بافلوف) في تجربته ، يحدث كل يوم في حياتنا العملية ، لكننا ببساطة ؛ لا ننتبه له ... إذا انتبهت بشكل جيد ستلاحظ المحفزات و المؤثرات النفسية على جسدك في كل لحظة و كل مكان !!

#Maher_Razouk
#ماهررزوق

[Rachel]

This was a really good read for getting familiar with over fifty studies that have been conducted to test theories in psychology (and why the results matter).

[Carlo Corti]

This review will be pretty short, since I really only use this book to look and see if I could find some good experiments to replicate in my psychology class. There’s some nice background on lots of famous and some not-so-famous research studies, put in very understandable language. And I found five or six things I want to try with my class, but I would only recommend this book if you’re a psychology teacher looking for some classroom activities.

[Madeleine Anderson]

This book is great for learning more about psychology experiments and how to recreate them yourself. I would highly recommend this to anyone interested in psychology that wants to try out some experiments of their own.

[Chinette De La Pena]

This is a handbook for our everyday "Whys".

[Ionut]

Nice one, with a lot of experiments to try. It would have been better if more deep explanation were given for why they matter.

[Assayah]

meh, meh, meh

Sama teoria ze studiów, pojawiły się może ze 3 nowsze badania, wszystko przedstawione pobieżnie (rozumiem, że to książka nie dla psychologów, ale no błagam, dało się opisać więcej szczegółów tak, aby nie było przesadnie naukowo).

Nie czytałam fragmentów o pomysłach na własne badania - tak, o to chodziło w tej książce, ale może mi ktoś powiedzieć, skąd wziąć 20-30 znajomych chętnych do przeprowadzenia eksperymentów? Bo tak, tyle osób potrzeba do każdego przedstawionego zadania. Sądzę, że te pomysły miały sens, ale ilość osób + to, że wstęp do badań był tak ubogi i szybki, sprawiło że miałam dość już po pierwszych rozdziałach

[Andrew Dato]

A nice short and surface level book about some psych experiments and how you can recreate them in real life. It’s a decent read but nothing more then that. It only touches on everything for a page or so before going over another one. If your looking for some in depth look at psychology and experiments that show how it works, this is not the book for you. If your looking for a lot of surface level information in a more quantity over quality sort of way then this is a book for you. It’s good to introduce you to concepts and ideas but doesn’t go further than that.

[Adrianna]

It's not a bad book, but its biggest part are the the instructions of how to prepare the experiments yourself and most of them require groups of at least 15 people to be done, thus I'm not sure they're that doable for an average reader taking up this book. I'd much rather enjoy a book that would dedicate more space to describe the conclusions of the experiments, as those are very short.
In a nutshell, it's not the right book if you want to learn some psychology theories, rather one for somebody who looks for ideas for group activities.

[Elon]

Easy to grasp introduction to many fun and/or interesting psychological experiments. I did, however, feel a bit uncertain as to who was the target group, as the descriptions to replicate the experiments felt wildly different in who could/would do it.

[Andrew Christopherson]

This book was a great light read, the instructions to replicate the experiments were thorough throughout the book meaning if anyone wanted to replicate these experiments they could! Overall a fun little supplement to anyone interested in Psych

[Jason Comely]

I like the concept and the presentation is simple and straight-forward. It seems written for the high school level.

[Brian]

Good general overview of the subject.

[Josef]

Turns out, this book wasn't for me. I think I expect more from books.

[John Gunerli]

good ama it's not a book it's reference

[Majuchan]

It is a series of different psych experiments done through out history. You could pick some examples for your everday socials or for your business.

Overall, it's kinda entertaining.

[Justyna]

dnf:/

[Alucard]

5/10

[Gulsum]

This 👏🏻 was 👏🏻 so 👏🏻 fun 👏🏻
I liked how you could “try the experiment” yourself too.

[Moritz Frieling]

Can't rate because it is a book about experiments but I didn't undertook any, which made the book worse and less interesting than it might have been.

[eko]

turkcesini okudum. baslangic icin guzel

[Metodi Pachev]

Nicht so interessant wie ich es mir vorgestellt habe. Für alle Vorschläge zum Nachstellen von psychologischen Experimenten braucht man minstestens vier Personen, um das Experiment durchzuführen (was meiner Meinung nach hätte vermieden werden können.) Außerdem bezweifle ich die Ethik einigier Experimente, die man zu Hause nachstellen soll. Trotzdem lässt sich aus dem Buch folgendes Fazit ziehen: wir sind von zu viel Marketing-Tricks umgeben.

[emma]

can’t believe i didn’t review this one before! i truly enjoyed it. it is a snapshot of famous experiments meant to be digestible for the reader. i actually ended up using an experiment from this in a paper for my MA degree. if i could have completed some of the do-it-yourself portions, i think i would have had much more fun. this is a great read for people teaching psych and marketing to younger students.

[Romik]

An sich ein interessantes Buch. Cover hat eine ansprechende Art. Für Psychologiestudenten oder Menschen die sich mit empirischer Psychologie beschäftigen eher langweilig.