Fifty psychological and psychiatric terms to avoid: A list of inaccurate, misleading, misused, ambiguous, and logically confused words and phrases

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Lilienfeld, Scott O ^a   Sauvigné, Katheryn C ^b   Lynn, Steven Jay ^c   Cautin, Robin L ^d   Latzman, Robert D ^b   Waldman, Irwin D ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Sacred Heart College   (United States)

Author keywords

Jingle and jangle fallacies; Misconceptions; Misunderstandings; Scientific thinking; Terminology

Indexed keywords

EID: 85026942374     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01100     Document Type: Review

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