#ThisPsychMajor and Political Fallout

In case you missed it, Republican Presidential candidate Jeb Bush, recently stated that most psychology majors would end up working in fast food. This spawned a series of people tweeting what #ThisPsychMajor does in their professional lives. Psychology Today blogger Travis Langley posted a number of tweets stating what the psych majors have done. You can find that information here:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/beyond-heroes-and-villains/201510/presidential-candidate-says-psych-degree-means-fast-food-job

From the blog post:

""Universities ought to have skin in the game," former Florida governor and current presidential candidate Jeb Bush said at a South Carolina town hall meeting Saturday morning, "When a student shows up, they ought to say 'Hey, that psych major deal, that philosophy major thing, that's great, it's important to have liberal arts … but realize, you're going to be working a Chick-fil-A.'" (link is external) Psychology and philsophy [sic] weren't random examples used to put down all college education because he also bemoaned a shortage of, among other things, information technologists and teachers."

Dr. Ali Mattu, https://twitter.com/AliMattu, has extensively covered the event as well, retweeting many posts, including my own. Below is a picture he tweeted about his own work. Be sure to check out his YouTube show and other work-they are linked on his Twitter account.

For checking out the posts directly, here is the twitter search:
https://twitter.com/search?q=%23ThisPsychMajor&src=tyah

posted by Chuck Schallhorn

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Psychology Benefits Society

If you like to keep up with psychological news, there is a nice site for you called the Psychology Benefits Society hosted by the APA.

Their main page is here: http://psychologybenefits.org/

The article that I received in my email this morning was about the APA and sexual minorities.  I subscribe to the "get involved" newsletter.  There are others you can follow.

Recent topics include racism, microaggressions, subtle racism, teen suicide prevention, parenting and timeouts, and human trafficking.  Great source of scientific information about many different aspects of psychology.

This link is for getting involved and receiving their emails.



posted by Chuck Schallhorn

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