Word: parte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...acute shortage of secretaries is forcing many University offices to share receptionists and hire part-time undergraduate typists, Nicholai F. Wessell, associate director of personnel, said yesterday...
...project will first attempt to discover the effects of volunteer workers upon mental hospital patients. A professional psychologist has investigated individual patients; he will make a re-evaluation at the end of the year to discover the volunteers' effect upon patients. In this "case aid" part of the PBH program, a volunteer works directly with a single patient...
...retrospect it seems unbelievable that such an election took nearly four days to achieve. Part of the difficulty was physical--the widely separated quarters of the men and women, the Communists' refusal to provide a meeting place, the scheduling of intriguing cultural events all day, and more, subtly, the invitations to all-night parties. Communication of meeting times and places (even when those were finally settled) was nearly impossible, and the direct action of goon squads made it no easier. At West Station, for example, a teaching fellow in anthropology, Karl Heider, was roughed up for carrying an information sign...
...demonstrated exhibited this same phenomenon under hypnosis. "No students in control group, who were given a similar lecture and demonstration but with no mention of catalepsy, showed the phenomenon," Dr. Orne reported. The results tended to support Dr. Orne's hypothesis that subjective role-playing is an important part of hypnotic behavior...
Motivation also plays an important part in hypnotic reactions. No one can be successfully hypnotized unless he is willing, and in an experiment the subject often is motivated by what Dr. Orne calls "the demand characteristics of the situation." In an experiment, for instance, the subject feels he has to cooperate with the experimenter for "the sake of science," and thus his behavior in trance is motivated by a desire to help the hypnotist...