Word: bauernfeind
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...compile the inventory, two psychologists-H. H. Remmers of Purdue University and Robert H. Bauernfeind of Carleton College-questioned 6,000 school kids on every sort of problem from "I have to go to bed too early" to "I hit my sister." One-fourth of the children, they found, are chronic hypochondriacs, worried about all sorts of aches and pains (e.g., "I have a thumping . . ." "Sometimes I get real dizzy"). And almost as many are worried because "I am not nice-looking...
Among the 6,000 children, Psychologists Remmers and Bauernfeind found a few tots wise beyond their years. Said one fourth-grader: "I have no troubles. But I'll have some afterwards...
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