Gene Roddenberry’s science fiction franchise offers a wealth of characters and diverse situations an instructor might explore to use psychology to analyze Star Trek and Star Trek to teach psychology.
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The Avengers Teach Psychology: Class Assemble!
Three SHIELD agents, seven superheroes, and one Norse supervillain can illustrate a variety of psychological concepts.
Misremembering Batman
“I’ve read a Batman psychology book before.” No, you haven’t. Before this year, no one has ever published a book on the psychology of a specific superhero, so why do so many people think think they’ve already read one?
A Dark and Stormy Knight: Why Batman?
Why do we find the Caped Crusader so interesting? Batman is the superhero with no superpowers, born to fantastic wealth but driven by an origin that is powerful and brutally believable. What else attracts us to him? Do we have bats in the belfry?
Batman’s Case Files: Immortality versus Extinction
As science extends life, improving both quantity and quality of the years we might live, new patterns of later life emerge. Taking a look at Batman Begins’ villain Ra’s al Ghul, a 450-year-old eco-terrorist as depicted in the original source, we contemplate how an extremely prolonged life might affect one’s view of people and the planet itself. What might Erik Erikson say?
Batman’s Case Files: Bane, the Man Who Broke the Bat
Bane’s drive to beat Batman for the sheer sake of beating Batman (as depicted in the original comics) illustrates his strong achievement motivation, Need for Achievement: the need to overcome obstacles, to attain a lofty standard, and to rival and surpass others.