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Redirect. Noua știință A Schimbării Psihologice (2000)

by Timothy D. Wilson(Favorite Author)

3.66 of 5 Votes: 1

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review 1: This is a well-focused book from an established academic in the field of Social Psychology. His premise is pretty simple: what he calls "story editing" is a technique to "redirect people's narratives about themselves and the social world in a way that leads to lasting changes in behavior." The basic premise is that changing the stories we tell ourselves can have measurable positive impacts on what we do.The balance of the book applies this story-editing perspective to a variety of social issues: teen sex education, drinking, violence, prejudice. The persistent theme here is that it's quite common to create large, expensive social programs without ever testing (in a rigorous and valid way) whether they actually work! Happily there are also some examples of programs that hav... moree been tested and that do work. One interesting example: asking middle-schoolers to write essays 3-5 times per year about their values and why they're important improves their school performance, even with no other academic coaching. The analysis suggests that some amount of self-affirmation can help counter threats to self-esteem (but you need to read the book for the deeper background of what's going on here).
review 2: This book is very useful (particularly if you are a psychology clinician, social worker, conscientious parent, educator, curious human being etc), as it (a) covers just enough experimental and statistical method to activate the "educated sceptic" module (b) rigorously shreds non evidence based interventions such as DARE and Scared Straight (c) introduces us to a broadly applicable method for adaptive personal and social change called "story editing" and effectively presents evidence for its efficacy. So why the 3 stars (as opposed to 4 or 5)? Because the book (very much like the authors other book Strangers To Our Selves) suffers a bit from a stuffy and dry presentation style. Steven Pinker, Robert Sapolsky and Jonathan Haidt can present 700 pages of complex, abstract academic subject matter and have you laughing and crying all the way. This (for me) is the gold standard. This book is good, but it goes down a little like broccoli after a milkshake. I'd say this is very worthwhile reading if you're very interested in social psychology (and I am, and so should you). But if you're not, read it any way but consider yourself warned. less

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