Abstract
In this article, I describe a special topics course in American popular psychology. Course objectives are to (a) trace the history of the popularization of psychology in America; (b) discuss the efforts of the “great popularizers,” including William James, G. Stanley Hall, Hugo Münsterberg, and J. B. Watson; and (c) evaluate the quality of various examples of popular psychology. I emphasize active learning throughout the course. Students read original sources, participate in a variety of exercises, and prepare historical papers or content analyses of popular psychology. I recommend that interested faculty offer such a course or incorporate some of the material on popular psychology into existing history of psychology courses.
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