{"id":1555,"date":"2018-11-02T15:57:10","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T22:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/?p=1555"},"modified":"2018-11-03T16:31:27","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T23:31:27","slug":"star-trek-psychology-the-mental-frontier-edited-by-travis-langley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/?p=1555","title":{"rendered":"Star Trek Psychology: The Mental Frontier edited by Travis Langley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.librarything.com\/work\/19741388\/book\/161531296\" target=\"_self\"><br \/>\n<img style=\"margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 12px; margin-right: 12px;\" \nsrc=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/P\/145491842X.01._SX142_SY224_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg\" alt=\"Star Trek Psychology: The Mental Frontier edited by Travis Langley\" width=\"136\" height=\"225\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a collection of short papers on common subjects in psychology.  It uses Star Treck characters and events to provide examples and explain concepts.  Each paper is written by different experts in the field paired with someone more experienced in writing to the common man.  Editing is done well, as each paper has a similar style, making the collection feel coherent.  <\/p>\n<p>I found the book both interesting and easy to read.  The use of Star Trek to drive ideas home makes it easy to understand and (hopefully) remember.  <\/p>\n<p>The book is part of a series, Psychology of Popular Culture.  I plan to read more of this series.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a collection of short papers on common subjects in psychology. It uses Star Treck characters and events to provide examples and explain concepts. Each paper is written by different experts in the field paired with someone more experienced in writing to the common man. Editing is done well, as each paper has a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[110],"class_list":["post-1555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","tag-travis-langley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1555"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1558,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555\/revisions\/1558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}