Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first study of slang in this small community, a self-contained unit ideally suited for the purpose, was made in 1930 by Leonard W. Merryweather of the Mooseheart School. Recently Psychologist Edmund Kasser made a second study. In the current Journal of Genetic Psychology he reports that...
...names for Mooseheart staff members-sluefoot, screw, night-caller, supreme being, walking tree-have died. An increase of tolerance has presumably caused the disappearance of such words as fish and fisheater (both meaning Catholic), and aquarium (a Catholic priest's home). Also gone are smutch (sneak-out), squirrel (psychologist, i.e., one who looks for "nuts...
...humanity may be divided into three groups: 1) hapticals, 2) visuals, and 3) in-betweens. So says Professor Viktor Lowenfeld, an eminent Viennese psychologist now at Hampton Institute in Virginia, who in 1939 deeply impressed artists with a book offering a new theory about The Nature of Creative Activity. Professor Lowenfeld explains that visuals are people who think of objects primarily in terms of what they see; hapticals, in terms of the sense of touch and kinesthetic (muscular) sensations...
...wartime, soldiers usually betray the state of their nerves by the bitterness of their griping; civilians, by their readiness to believe rumors. At Syracuse University, Psychologist Floyd H. Allport tried twelve current rumors about rationing on a cross section of 537 Syracuse citizens. Results...
...plan lets the teacher be judged by his own colleagues. They in turn are guided by standards which the Washington faculty as a whole laid down in answer to a recent questionnaire. The novel application of these standards was worked out by Dean Edwin Ray Guthrie, recently chief consultant psychologist on the U.S. Army General Staff...