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Jeffry Alan Frieden, who will arrive at the University next fall, is an expert in political economy. He has written extensively on the Latin American debt crisis and international monetary relations...
Harvard has been wooing Frieden, 40, for several years, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Jeremy R. Knowles said in a speech to a gathering of more than 630 alumni Friday night...
...that Champ is a genuine sea monster. Amateur Photographer Sandra Mansi, for one. Four years ago, says Mansi, she snapped Champ with her Kodak Instamatic. To see if the photo had been doctored, it was sent to the University of Arizona Optical Sciences Center for close scrutiny. B. Roy Frieden, 44, professor of optical sciences, pronounced it see-worthy. But skeptics are nettled by a number of things: 1) the possibility of a nearby sand bar that could have enabled hoaxers to plant a mechanical monster, 2) the negative has vanished, and 3) Mansi's inability to recall...
...Frieden told 40 students they were helping out in a "Patty Hearst simulation" and could choose a simple task (listening to a propaganda tape) or a more humiliating and painful one (being blindfolded and bound, and given electric shocks). All students were given personality tests. Those whose self-esteem was bolstered by praise for their performance chose the tape. But students who were derided (sample comment: "It's clear you really don't have very good social skills") overwhelmingly chose to be bound and shocked...
...another study, Frieden managed to delude some students into thinking they were masochists. Asked to choose between the tape and the shock, they picked the shock by a significant margin. Three-quarters of the shock group even agreed to eat a dead worm Frieden dangled in front of them. The reason, he thinks, is that they were anxious to learn if they were indeed masochists. In general, Frieden concludes, it is surprisingly easy to push normal people toward masochism. Says he: "When feeling bad about themselves, people actively choose to suffer." The good news is that none of the students...