PsyBlog is soliciting your favorite psychobabble. Head over there to give your favorite instance of the complete misinterpretation of psychology in pop culture.
My favorite is number one on their list of examples: "Their brains lit up in the scanner." Brain activity is not phosphorescent. There is euphemism, and there is a point where the euphemism entirely confuses the issue.
Hat-tip: Mind Hacks
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That title isn't a euphemism-- SteelyKid decided to use this week's Toddler Blogging to try to teach an old Appa a new trick. First you go up up up on your head:
Three girls have been suspended from school because, during a reading of an excerpt from the Vagina Monologues
I was looking through my unread emails and found a list of modern euphemisms, which was sent to me by a reader of mine.