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Nietfeld, E. (2025.). What the most famous book about trauma gets wrong. Mother Jones. https://www.motherjones.com/media/2024/12/trauma-body-keeps-the-score-van-der-kolk-psychology-therapy-ptsd/ Also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Body_Keeps_the_Score

Learning styles . https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2019/05/learning-styles-myth

Damian, R. I., & Roberts, B. W. (2015). Settling the debate on birth order and personality. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112(46), 14119–14120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1519064112 What does popular media say about birth order?

Compared to what?
Crede, M. (2019). A Negative Effect of a Contractive Pose is not Evidence for the Positive Effect of an Expansive Pose: Comment on Cuddy, Schultz, and Fosse (2018). Meta-Psychology, 3. https://doi.org/10.15626/MP.2019.1723

Ferguson, C. J. (2025). Do social media experiments prove a link with mental health: A methodological and meta-analytic review. Psychology of Popular Media, 14(2), 201. https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-80192-001

Bunce, C., Eggleston, A., Brennan, R., & Over, H. (2025). To what extent is research on infrahumanization confounded by intergroup preference? Royal Society Open Science, 12(4). https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article/12/4/241348/235666

I want students to see examples of how shoddy research gets hyped and trace it back to the underlying work. For an undergraduate seminar, looking for suggestions for take-downs of popular psychology claims, based on critiquing the underlying flawed research. Below are the suitable ones I have so far.
"Compared to what?" is one theme I have; it's my phrase for highlighting that one always needs to think about the control/comparison condition and the possibilty of confounds.