Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...religious outlook is good protection against sudden death on the highways, according to a University of Colorado team headed by Psychologist John J. Conger. The team studied 264 men at Denver's Lowry Air Force Base, found that psychologists' scales of values were the best clue to accident proneness. Especially important: values in the religious, theoretical and esthetic fields. Subjects who seldom or never had driving accidents were those who attached more importance to religious values than to the theoretical or esthetic. The high-accident group tended to be less conventional, more complex and conflicted, less in harmony...
...Better? What does analysis do for patients? Says Hans Jurgen Eysenck, a bright, up-and-coming British psychologist: "I have yet to meet a Freudian who can prove that there is a higher [improvement rate] among neurotics who are psychoanalyzed . . . What evidence they do offer is anecdotal ... In mental cases of all types about three-quarters will recover in about the same period whether they have treatment...
...modern kitchen, all the cook must do is read the recipe, mix the ingredients, set the stove, and give the pot an occasional stir. To psychologist B.F. Skinner, the classroom is like a modern kitchen and "there is no reason why the school room should be any less mechanized than ... the kitchen." The teacher should remain, but only as cook...
...middle-aged American visitor hinted that she was lonely and a company representative insisted on taking her home to share Christmas dinner with his family. Since many U.S. tourists report lost or stolen valuables ot American express rather than police, company agents have to be part sleuth, part psychologist. For example, as a wealthy Houston woman boarded the boat train for Le Havre in Paris last summer, she shrieked that she had lost $60,000 worth of jewels. "Don't worry, lady," an American Express escort reassured her, "You take the train and we'll find the jewels...
Spotty Spotters. But some thought that total freedom was unwise. "Most college freshmen, at 17, aren't secure enough to tolerate the absence of intellectual con trols without anxiety," said Psychologist Weir. Added Caltech's George Beadle: "Isn't there a fallacy in complete freedom? Most of us have to have a push to get things done." M.I.T.'s Soderberg: "Since our students are relatively immature at the beginning of college, completely unrestricted freedom probably can't be applied until the third year...