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JEREMY S. SINGER-VINE ’08 of Berkeley, Calif. and Quincy House Senior Photography Editor...
...asked to give their opinion of the source of the black-white difference in IQ, 53% of those interviewed believe that genes and environment are both involved, compared with only 17% who attribute the cause entirely to the environment. Arthur R. Jensen Professor of Educational Psychology University of California, Berkeley...
...also have a lot of misconceptions about who gets stressed out and why. Twenty years ago, psychologists almost exclusively blamed job stress on high workloads or lack of control on the job. More recent studies, says Christina Maslach, a pioneer in burnout research at the University of California, Berkeley, show that unfairness and a mismatch in values between employees and their companies play an increasing role in triggering stress. "Probably one of the strongest predictors is when there's a vacuum of information--silence about why decisions were made the way they were," Maslach says. "Another is having to operate...
...academic career soon took him outside of Iowa to the University of California, Berkeley, where both he and his wife earned their doctorates...
...extreme case, but she is a terrifying precedent. Critics note that development in the disabled can come very, very slowly, so deciding when a child is only 6 to change her body irreversibly could amount to a medical form of identity theft. Ann McDonald-Cacho in Berkeley, Calif., was told there was no hope for her son Philip, who had a diagnosis of the same condition as Ashley's. There's no way to know if Ashley will ever be able to sit up or control a wheelchair with her head as Philip eventually could. "They flew to the worst...