How to Kill an Earworm, Jana Louise Smit
How to Kill an Earworm, Jana Louise Smit
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How to Kill an Earworm
And 500+ Other Psychology Facts You Need to Know

Author: Jana Louise Smit

Narrator: Vyvy Nguyen

Unabridged: 5 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/18/2023

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

Discover why you were always afraid of a monster under your childhood bed, why people truly believe in their “lucky” lotto numbers, and more with hundreds of quick facts, research-based explanations, and challenging quiz questions on everything from the psychology of our ancient ancestors to the dark side of the world of psychology.

Did you know:
-The fear of losing your cell phone is real…and there’s even a name for it.
-The way you kiss might actually be based in science?
-That gaslighting actually has a psychological “cousin” known as “moonwalking”?

Psychology is the scientific study of the mind and behavior, which means there’s a lot of ground to cover. But this isn’t your average “intro to psychology” book. Instead, How to Kill an Earworm is here to help you learn those little-known trivia facts you really want to know.

This must-have guide features hundreds of fun facts and challenging quiz questions about psychology, covering everything from influential historical figures who impacted the study of psychology as we know it today to learning psychological principles you might not realize are at work right now in your everyday life. Did you know about the dark side of daylight savings time? What about the way kids’ cereal boxes are intentionally designed to manipulate the child’s emotions?

From “zombie behaviors” to the “doorway effect”, it’s time to dive into over 500 psychological facts you definitely didn’t know before picking up this book!

About Jana Louise Smit

Jana Louise Smit honed her craft as a trivia writer at Listverse, the internet’s original Top Ten site. She also wrote for the award-winning Introvert, Dear, the world’s largest online community and blog for introverts. Born and raised in sunny South Africa, Jana has now settled in the Eastern Cape where she enjoys life as a busy freelance writer, a blogger on various topics, and a deep thinker (mostly about snacks and dogs).


Reviews

Goodreads review by Lauren

It was okay. It wasn't bad, and it had some interesting stuff, but it was a bit hard to sit and read a lot of it at a time. It's more of a bathroom kind of read in my opinion, but not in a bad way. I wasn't a fan of the little quizzes where you had to flip to the last pages for the answer, but they......more

Goodreads review by David

This book is chock-a-block full of facts about psychology, shared in a breezy, fun way. The book begins with a brief history of psychology; the body of text is divided into the various disciplines within psychology (developmental, behavioral, cognitive, personality psychology, forensic/abnormal psyc......more

Goodreads review by Kate

This was interesting! Not the most exciting read, but cool enough. I love knowledge and random facts so it intrigued me! It helped that they were quick facts because I've been extremely busy and it's easier to pause in the middle of reading when you aren't invested in a plot. I hate nonfiction but m......more

Goodreads review by Kim

short book about how your brain works and other psychological facts, such as emotion, narcisstic behavior and how sales works to get you to buy stuff. Lots of short facts and trivia about psychology. There were a series of quizzes in each chapter. However, the quizzes did not have answers within the......more

I really liked the format of this book. It had short, interesting bits of information on each page with a one question quiz on every page or two. It was fun to just randomly open it up and read. The reason why I didn't give it a higher rating was that, despite the intriguing title, the information c......more