In The Quick Fix: Why Fad Psychology Can't Cure Our Social Ills, Jesse Singal looks at attempts to change social policy based on bad or faulty psychological research--think power posing, the self-esteem movement, and the Implicit Association Test (IAT), which supposedly reveals unconscious racism. He tells Nick Gillespie his goal is to explain why we keep falling for ideas that psychologists say will fix society so we waste less time focusing on things that don't really help anyone.