The Quick Fix: Why Fad Psychology Can’’t Cure Our Social Ills

＂How popular psychology fails to solve problems facing society and draws attention and resources away from more effective structural fixes＂--

Jesse Singal is a contributing writer at New York and the former editor of the magazine’s Science of Us online vertical, as well as the cohost of the podcast Blocked and Reported. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Slate, The Daily Beast, TheBoston Globe, and other publications. He is a former Robert Bosch Foundation fellow in Berlin and holds a master’s degree from Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs. The Quick Fix is his first book.