Popular psychology springs from the desire of people searching for inspiration and self-improvement in a secular form. This desire accounted for some of the success of the eighteenth-century bestseller Poor Richard's Almanack, through which...

The term popular psychology (frequently called pop psychology or pop psych), refers to concepts and theories about human mental life and behaviour that are purportedly based on psychology and that attain popularity amongst the general population. The...

University Wire 02-04-2005 (Daily Trojan) (U-WIRE) LOS ANGELES -- More University of Southern California students are taking interest in a relatively new minor called forensic psychology, which combines classes from the law school and the psychology department and offers students a chance for some...

The celebrated political philosopher H. L. Mencken once characterized democracy as "the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." Democratic theorists have mostly focused on the latter issue, without taking seriously the complexities...