The Effectiveness of Psychology Courses at Disconfirming Common Psychological Myths

The authors attempted to generalize Standing and Huber's (2003) findings concerning psychological myth-beliefs among Canadian students to a sample of Midwestern Americans, including university students (n = 171), junior college students (n = 79), and a local community sample (n = 45). Midwesterners' scores on the Huber Test were significantly lower than those of Canadians. In contrast to Standing and Huber's findings, myth acceptance was no higher for junior college than university students. Psychology courses taken and GPA were significant predictors of Huber test scores. Additionally, students were less susceptible to myth acceptance after having taken 10 or more psychology courses compared to those having taken 0 to 1 and 2 to 9 courses.