Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...successful TV technician is likely to be a college-trained mechanical wizard, a businessman and something of a psychologist. He spends his days rushing about to meet the demands of an infantile public that can't face the day without its favorite soap opera or wrestling match...
Industrial Psychologist Donald N. Michael of Stamford, Conn, suggested that the best place to look for such women might be Russia, where women are encouraged to develop technical skill. The Soviet government, he had heard, is experimenting with putting women in isolation chambers to see whether they will prove to be the most resistant subjects...
Industrial Psychologist Herbert Krugman added a slightly happier note. The Russians, he said, apparently believe that both males and females have special capabilities. So they are putting one of each sex (not necessarily married couples) into isolation chambers to see if they do their technical tasks more effectively over long periods than crews of two men or two women. This might be all right for Russia, but none of the psychologists were sure how the U.S. would feel about manning its spaceships with male and female pairs of unmarried psychotic midgets...
...Psychologists have long known that a person sees more than he realizes. The brain registers impressions that flash past too quickly to be consciously noted, uses the subconscious impressions to shape opinions and ideas. This week a New York University psychologist told how subconscious sight was used to fool subjects into thinking that a static portrait was really changing...
Last year KUHT Director John Meaney and University of Houston Psychologist Richard Evans hit upon an idea that should make KUHT the envy of any station. With a grant from the Fund for the Advancement of Education, they set out to put the world's "great masters" on film. This month they interviewed Freud's biographer, British Analyst Ernest Jones, 79. Last week they tackled Jung...