Word: psychologist
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...plays, Shakespeare used some 15,000 different words (not counting derivatives). Everyone knows that being able to recognize a word is not the same as feeling sufficiently familiar with it to use it. Nonetheless, last week a Northwestern University psychologist reported, for what it was worth, a surprising finding: an average college-educated modern man has at least a nodding acquaintance with four times as many words as Shakespeare used...
...owning a copy of the celebrated script (with indicated sound effects); 2) enjoying a learned laugh over the things it made people do; 3) studying U. S. behavior when a panic is on, The Invasion from Mars,* provides a lively, sympathetic anatomizing of the Wells-Welles ruckus by Psychologist Hadley Cantril and a special staff of Princeton's Radio Research Project...
...talk of invasion, gas, fire, and many deaths. Believing that everybody was done in down Princeton way, he headed back to rescue his girl, covered 45 miles in 35 minutes, passed through Newburgh, N. Y. (pop. 31,000) without noticing it. Analyzing this young man's questionnaire, Psychologist Cantril deduced him to be well-to-do, conventional, "particularly susceptible to prestige suggestion." The reputation of Columbia Broadcasting System, the broadcast references to the Princeton professor and the pessimistic Secretary of the Interior greatly impressed him. His reaction to the catastrophe seemed to be partly based upon his greatest fear...
...district police about the Baboon Boy. There was no written record of his finding, and the man who had caught him, Lance Sergeant Charles Holsen, had died; but another policeman who knew Holsen remembered his story, and this checked with the version previously given by the Baboon Boy himself. Psychologist John Porter Foley Jr. of George Washington University assembled the details of the case for the American Journal of Psychology, published a summary last week in Science. Africa's Baboon Boy takes rank as the only child known to have been raised by "infrahuman primates" (apes or monkeys...
...futile to argue in advertising. So believes Dr. Ernest Dichter, 32-year-old, Vienna-born psychologist. Dr. Dichter is a small, neat, emphatic man who speaks almost perfect English. He studied in Vienna when that city was the No. 1 roosting place for the big birds of psychoanalysis, went to Paris for more study, then back to Vienna for his Ph. D. Two years ago he arrived in the U. S., met a journalist who was fascinated by his ideas and took him to J. Stirling Getchell, Inc., enterprising Manhattan advertisers. In a small, neat Getchell office, small, neat...