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Direct linkGriggs, Richard A. – Teaching of Psychology, 2015
Most introductory textbooks discuss the story of Phineas Gage and his terrible accident in which he survived a three-and-a-half-foot-long tamping iron that weighed 13ΒΌ pounds exploding through his head. Twenty-three current introductory textbooks were analyzed for the accuracy of their coverage of Gage's subsequent (post-accident) history and…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Psychology, Textbook Content, Textbook Evaluation
