Lesley Newson wrote:
> I am in the early stages of developing a course for 1st year undergraduates
> in Psychology at the University of Exeter called "Psychology and the Media".
> It will look at "The Media" and the way information is supplied to the public
> from a psychological perspective. The hope is that students will become more
> critical consumers of media explanations of research, especially research
> commonly described as "psychological" (i.e. the whole range from market
> surveys to insights into mental illness).
There is a discussion list for psychologists seeking to encourage their
students to think critically. It goes by the name of PESTS (i.e. 'Psychologists
Educating Students to Think Skeptically') and details can be found at
<http://www.sc.maricopa.edu/sbscience/pests/>. You may like to consider copying
your query to that list. I suspect you will get some helpful replies.
Wayne Spencer
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