Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nobody knows how men began to talk, but plenty of scholars have advanced strangely nicknamed theories about it. Last week an eminent psychologist, Edward Lee Thorndike of Columbia University, entered his "babble-babble" (or "babble-luck") thesis in the competition...
Writing in Science, the Columbia psychologist explains that he started with the "safe" assumption that primitive man prattled like a child while at work and play. Observing his own children and grandchildren, Thorndike noted that these babblings sometimes repeated themselves in connection with the same act or object, at first by chance, then deliberately. Thus a primitive man may have babbled "ik" as he poked with a stick or "kuz" as he dug up a clam, then repeated the sound when he poked or dug again...
...artists, and a few scientists, the hand is as revealing as the face in expressing temperament, heredity, life habits, glandular function. One such scientist, Dr. Charlotte Wolff, physician and psychologist, last week gave her second summary of findings in the science of chirology. In The Human Hand (Alfred A. Knopf, $3) she carried on her rescue of the hand from the hocus-pocus of palmistry and fortunetelling, gave laymen some interesting reading as well...
Musical reputations, and why, have been a source of innocent fascination to Stanford University's violin-playing Psychologist Paul Randolph Farnsworth. Last week he released the results of a poll he had taken of two very different groups of U.S. citizens: 1) 500 Stanford students, 2) learned members of the American Musicological Society. The question: "Who, named in order, are the greatest composers in the history of music?" The answers showed striking agreement as to the first four names-and then chaos...
...Education keeps it secret. His mother first noticed something wrong when she heard him lulling himself to sleep reciting the multiplication tables. He was four. When he was four and a half, he caught the grocer short-changing his mother. That amazed her so that she wrote a child psychologist for guidance. The advice was to leave the boy alone. His parents say they did. They do not explain how he found out how to solve cube roots. For every question Joel answers correctly on the program he gets a penny and a marble. He also gets another penny...