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Peer reviewedPolyson, James A. – Teaching of Psychology, 1983
To make psychology course content more relevant to college students, popular television presentations can be used to illustrate psychological concepts. Students in a theories of personality course wrote brief essays explaining the behavior of their favorite TV characters. (RM)
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