I had not heard of Ritberger or her color analyses of personality. She has a sophisticated marketing scheme with blogs, websites, Facebook page,etc. you can check ritberger.com and other sites where her products, seminars,etc., are available. She describes herself as radio host, author and innovative leader in fields as "personality behavioral psychology and behavioral medicine." She offers comforting phrases that are the fodder of shared Facebook posting. You too can become certified and licensed to present your own training seminars applying her color analyses to solve diverse social, personal, and organizational problems. One can certainly use such folks in class to teach critical thinking (e.g.,Barnum effect and hindsight fitting), and how quackery can develop a following, in Social Psych to discuss social influence and marketing, and in Clinical and Ethics classes to explore the marketing of treatments and services (as also the role of pseudoscience and quackery). In Personality classes her ideas might be explored and compared to several classic authors presented there. I would think she would be very successful, but it would be interesting to see some comparative data on such things. Would "legitimate" professional psychotherapists or popular psychologists be jealous of her success or marketing sophistication? And....ask our classes, "what's the harm?"
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