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Many students come to Harvard in order to discover who they really are. The process takes four long years (for some, even longer) and is often frustrating, disheartening and sometimes shocking. Is there any way to speed up this arduous task of finding one's elusive inner child? Some students look to personality tests and questionnaires for them. But the students who participate in psychology experiments advertised in William James Hall have already found out that such methods don't help...
...Many of these children [in inner-cities] livein pervasive, consistent fear for their lives,"Pontius says. "Maybe these people, therefore,resort to sub-cortical processing...
Furthermore, Pontius believes her research may also apply to inner-city students, arguing that their "enormous illiteracy rate" may be the result of their violent environment...
...says the link between literacy andintra-pattern facial relations may explaindyslexia--a common reading disability--or even thehigh illiteracy rate in inner-city schools...
Opposites attract. If we didn't believe that slightly dubious premise, our culture--not to mention our inner lives--would be infinitely poorer: no Wuthering Heights, no Bringing Up Baby. On the other hand, to be strictly fair, had we been spared that thought we would also have been spared Abie's Irish Rose and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? You win some, you lose some...