Word: focused
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...according to psychologists some of the same forces now affecting psychology began undermining the department from its first, successful days, contributing to what Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences A. Michael Spence calls, "a tendency to focus on what is considered important by a dominant group," in "any field that's broad." Bales agrees: "Every discipline has a tendency to narrow down its interests and emphases," adding, "That can be reflected in its hiring practices...
...then-gutted Social Relations Department with the small, experimental Psychology Department. "Psychology and Social Relations" boasted the vestiges of an interdisciplinary outlook, according to some of those around during its early days, but the pressures of academia wore that commitment down. The demise of psychology's social focus "was not malicious, it was not a conspiracy," stresses George W. Goethals '43, a clinical and social psychologist who has spent most of the last four decades at Harvard. According to Goethals, departments simply take their form from the people who make them up, doing its work and recommending its tenure appointments...
...team unity is given a focus the night before each meet when the team gets together for a "psych meeting." During these sessions, each swimmer gets up and states her personal goal for the meet and a goal for the team...
Socialite Claus von Bulow did not testify during the retrial which acquitted him last year because his legal advisers wanted the jury to focus on medical rather than "soapopera testimony," said von Bulow's lawyer, Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz in his upcoming book, "Reversal of Fortune...
...Claus taken the stand, the jury's focus would have been on him," said Dershowitz, who was hired by von Bulow to secure a retrial and to advise him on his defense. "And no one can know for sure what the verdict would have been...