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Article: Where are the non-traditional applied areas of psychology in introductory psychology textbooks?
- Article from:
- North American Journal of Psychology
- Article date:
- December 1, 2005
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Griggs and colleagues (1994, 1999) found that non-traditional applied areas of psychology have not been adequately represented in introductory psychology textbooks. The purpose of this research was to update and expand the work done by Griggs and colleagues by using current introductory psychology textbooks (N = 57) to examine the amount of content that focused on non-traditional applied psychological areas and including additional non-traditional applied areas that Griggs and colleagues did not use. The second purpose was to compare the representation of the nine non-traditional applied areas to more traditional applied areas. We found that the combined amount of ...