Gardner and Brown (2013) conducted a study to test whether or not people believe in popular myths. They asked college students true or false questions in eleven different topic areas which includes Psychological treatment, memory, Intelligence and learning, Brain and behavior, Mental illness, Emotion and motivation, Psychology and the law, Development and aging, Social psychology, personality, and Consciousness and then compared the questions (Gardner and Brown, 2013). It was found that some college students believed in the myths while the others did not believe in the myths. They also found that there were "differences in misconception levels between the 11 topic areas" (Gardner and Brown,
