Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most baffling of man's seven ages is adolescence. A few years ago a commission of the Progressive Education Association undertook to find out what makes adolescents tick. In a monumental five-year study it examined thousands, collected over 600 case histories. Fortnight ago a Swiss biologist and psychologist, Peter Bios, friend of Sigmund Freud, summed up the commission's findings in a report on four representative youngsters named Betty, Paul Mary and Joe (The Adolescent Personality; D. Appleton-Century...
...There is no correlative statistical basis for astrology. Example: Most astrologers agree that a person born under Libra should have musical talent. A Stanford psychologist studied the birthdates of 1,498 musicians, found fewer born under Libra than under any sign except Scorpio...
...last week, pontificated 66-year-old Edward Lee Thorndike, famed psychologist, emeritus professor of education at Columbia University's Teachers College. Creator of an intelligence test that bears his name. Dr. Thorndike has made studies of the "goodness of living" in U. S. cities, based on such factors as per capita value of schools, libraries, parks, percentage of home owners, infant and general death rates (TIME...
...learned educators, industrialists and doctors who had gathered to ponder these problems, famed Psychologist Edward Lee Thorndike made a concrete proposal: let the U. S. establish State asylums for underprivileged geniuses to match its asylums for the feebleminded...
Paul Klee's artistic babbling and cooing was not unique. All over Europe artists had suddenly developed a subconscious itch. High priest of the cult was Viennese Psychologist Sigmund Freud, who had taken the human mind apart and discovered that a lot of its thinking was controlled by buried childhood memories. Surrealism was not yet fashionable. But writers like James Joyce and Gertrude Stein, "expressionist" painters like Max Ernst and Vassily Kandinsky were already scratching their nether brains, hypnotizing themselves into trances, trying to get their inchoate feelings into print and paint...