psychology = freud?

It has become a tradition for me to conduct a quiz with History of Psychology students about their interests and probing their knowledge of eminent psychologists. This year 132 students participated in the survey (about 80% of students are 1st year psych majors, with the rest from other fields, such as economics, biology, or sports sciences). Overall, the results look very similar to those from 2015 and 2016. Freud and Jung again make it to the top of the list of psychologists recalled by students; and, again, others like Wundt get mentioned infrequently; Kahneman barely makes it to the list. I also asked students to name up to 10 books about psychology they have read and found that the median of books students were able (or could be bothered) to mention was 1…

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