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...addition of Delano—who cites finding an inner balance and working on her mental game as her goals for the season—to the middle of the lineup will be all the more important once Yale, who was shorthanded at the scrimmages, returns to full strength. The Yale match is not until Feb. 19, though Harvard will face the Elis in another scrimmage during reading period...
...know how this league works,” said Prasse-Freeman. “I think this team has the senior leadership and mental toughness...
...worst Division I athletes to play basketball,” he jokes, claiming that any success he’s had is due more to mental toughness than anything else...
...probably the most famous psychologist you've never heard of. Back in the 1960s, his work was widely covered in the press--and with good reason. Through a series of brilliant experiments, Harlow proved that love, despite what most of his colleagues believed, plays a crucial role in mental well-being. The idea that such a thing needed proving in the first place seems bizarre today. But as Deborah Blum explains in Love at Goon Park (Perseus; 336 pages), her thorough and beautifully written biography of Harlow, it made perfect sense in the context of mid--20th century psychology...
...dolls in a series of experiments at the University of Wisconsin--Madison in the 1950s and '60s, Harlow proved the babies would cling to the dolls even when food was offered elsewhere. Love, which other psychologists had dismissed as irrelevant and scientifically meaningless, was in fact the linchpin of mental health...