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...sure, pop-psych notions about how you create a good kid--about some simple, magical parenting style--were due for the thrashing Harris gives them. Behavioral geneticists have learned that identical twins reared together are scarcely more alike than identical twins reared apart. This and other data suggest that the "shared environment" of siblings--including the overall household atmosphere and child-rearing tenets that parents apply to all their kids--have little straightforward effect on personality...
...many experiments are actually entertaining, and the only criticism may be having to wait in line, is there any reason to be suspicious of these "Psych Studies"? Despite having taken a number of tests, Soriano is still a little wary, adding, "I'm glad that I haven't found anything too weird going on... at least not yet." Zettel jokingly describes one possible extreme scenario: "First they stripped me naked and laid me down on a hard table. Then the lights went out and these experimenters in leather came out with whips. One of them said...
Such anxieties are compounded by the way all figure-skating competitions are set up. Some skaters have been known to psych one another out in practice and warmup, which usually take place in the same rink. Once the competition begins, all skaters stretch in the same area backstage, as the public-address system booms their rivals' scores throughout the arena. As many as 40 min. can elapse between an on-ice warmup and a contestant's solo turn to compete. Some skaters plug in earphones, listening to whatever relaxes them, drowning out their bothers. (Lipinski tunes in to peppy dance...
...first 15 minutes of "Charles Grodin" on CNBC were actually entertaining. Grodin said he's supported every president back to FDR, peccadilloes and all, because "I understand the stress of the job." Then there's the Murdoch report: Fox "News" at 10 ran a pop-psych piece suggesting that Monica and Bill were "the perfect match." "Men pursue their 'honey,'" the featured expert said. "Women pursue the money...
...Smiley for the unapologetic boldness with which she appropriated the story of King Lear for her Pulitzer prize-winning novel, A Thousand Acres, resettling his mythical Britannic majesty and his fractious daughters on a modern Iowa farm. You also have to admire the nerve with which she attached pop-psych subtexts to her rearrangement, the daring with which she turned the whole works into a feminist tract...