Pop Psychology: A Psychological Analysis

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Psychology is a branch, which scrutinizes the human conduct by exploring the views and activities of an individual in a scientific or vox populi manner. The aim of this branch in the domain of psychology is to define the realistic or popular concepts behind the behavior and actions of individuals (Plotkin, 1998). However, over a period of time, pop or popular psychology and professional psychology increased to the highest extent to disseminate psychology domain’s influence in the society. The pop psychology is pseudo psychological philosophy (lacking scientific evidences and involves myths), counseling, or notions to help masses to understand about humans’ behaviors. The self-help business is the foremost industry to broadcast human mental …show more content…

No rational methodologies or sound approaches exist in its framework. Further, daily understandings are taken for granted to simplify the understandings of the mental or physical behavior of the persons. In contrast, the professional psychology proceeds by implementing logical learning of psychological function and behavior. For example, in clinical, education, and criminological psychology and so on other field, logical studies of realizing, releasing and inhibiting cerebral suffering are carried out to promote individuals’ comfort. Methodologies such as cerebral behavioral, existential-humanistic, and family therapy system are also used in therapeutic treatments (Murphy, …show more content…

For example, human’s ability to use its brain, Anger management tips, self-esteem’s role in physiological issues, human memory myths, full moon or no moon’s effect in people’s mind, opposite sex attraction, and so on are examples of pop psychology philosophy (DePaulo et al., 1996). It has been found that, it has nothing to do with the reality and is gobbledygook. Conversely, the professional psychology involves specialists, or domain specific experts, who have profound knowledge on how different settings, social or cultural or personal factors play a role in human behavior and so they are able to address various ways the psychology can be executed. For instance, in the health domain, it realizes how environmental science, activities and social background affect health issues or disorders with the help of empirical researches (Murphy, 2006). The pop psychology propagates disadvantages such as incorrectly considered psychologically troubled people, misdiagnosed persons and because of that it may lead to other rational problems and partial knowledge’s implementation may aggravate people’s sound physical as well as mental well-being. Where, the professional psychology

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