Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...MacDougal (no relation to Professor William McDougall, the Oxford-Harvard psychologist), is in charge of desert laboratories at Tucson, Ariz., and Carmel, Calif., for discovering the processes by which plant life takes energy from the air and the sun. He aims to supplement both the food and the fuel supply eventually, by obtaining carbon from the atmosphere without waiting for the slow vegetable process...
...DANCE OF LIFE ? Havelock Ellis ? Houghton Miff tin ($4.00). Havelock Ellis, psychologist and essayist, called "the most civilized Englishman living today," writes his philosophic view of life and the living thereof. "It has always been difficult," he begins, "for Man to realize that his life is all an art." In the development of his thesis?which is considerably more an attitude than a theory?Mr. Ellis has written what will probably stannd as one of the most significant achievements of contemporary thought...
...proved to be at Yale, football hopes for next year may soar higher than ever. And Mr. Gundelfinger is to be thanked on still another score. Every student who can persuade himself to read the pamphlet through may, by studying this excellent pathological case, become an embryo psychologist...
Prof. Howard R. Mayberry, a psychologist at the University of Chicago, tested 300 men and women students as to their perception of optical illusions, such as two points of light, one moving and one stationary, in a dark room. Whether they were right or wrong, women were, as a rule, more positive of their perceptions, and they were wrong more frequently than the men, who were usually open to conviction...
...good lady who sought to win the Scientific American prize for ghost raisers by making the quickness of the hand deceive the eye was put to ignominious rout by the forces of science. The fact that William James, the great philosopher and psychologist, sent through her a message to the world written in heliotrope-colored ink was enough to raise some doubt. Furthermore that this message was only a sigh--"How happy I should have been for such an opportunity as this"--instead of further elaborations of his stratum-of-energy theory or his plans for prevention of war must...