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This is a great magazine. Fun and interesting. It’s a magazine, not a text book. If you want to read a text book, then go buy one and read it. Do you negatively rate a knife because it doesn’t work well as a spoon? It’s a great casual read when your relaxing, for people interested in the subject.
I bought this as a gift and learned that the recipient only received two of the copies out of the entire year.
I had a subscription to this as a teenager and loved it. In the dark ages before the internet, I anticipated its arrival every month with enthusiasm and hungrily devoured each new issue. I’d have to credit Psychology Today with giving me a reasonably solid foundation for understanding human nature, something that I too often take for granted in adulthood.
Recently, feeling nostalgic while browsing my local library, I picked up the latest issue. Obvious fluff, every bit of it! Common sense with bright pictures! What had happened to the quality of the magazine I’d once loved?
Nothing had happened at all, I realized. I just grew up. At some point, common sense does indeed become common–if you learn it in the first place. This was a great magazine for me as a teen, but not at all interesting as an adult.
But then, I outgrew Sesame Street Magazine even earlier. Maybe I’ll show PT to my own teenage children. I suspect they might love it as much as I did!
Yes, the magazine has “risque” covers, but that’s to get people to pick it up. And then, hopefully, someone who wouldn’t have otherwise read a factual, informational, psychological magazine will read it. I feel the stories are designed to be interesting to a wide range of people, and they keep the diction simple enough so that even if you’re not a psych student you can make sense of it. I also think the stories bring relevance to psychology – it’s not all about people with disorders and treatments, etc – it relates to day-to-day thought processes and behavior. Besides, if you’re a psychology student, you shouldn’t be expecting this magazine to substitute a textbook or published study. I’m a psychology student, and I find the articles refreshing – they’re informative, relevant to society, thought-provoking, and teach without shoving theory after theory down your throat.
I just got my first issue of this magazine, and I am really pleased with it. It’s got quite a few good articles, and small notes that get you thinking. I would recommend it.