Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Outside of Princeton's academic life, the President's committee still has serious problems, particularly in orienting the new undergraduate to the campus social life. Some of these social problems were pointed out in an article, "The Underclass Years" written by S. Roy Heath, psychologist, and director of the Advisee Project for the Class of 1954 at Princeton...
...covey of network executives also appeared for the defense. Merle Jones, a CBS vice president, was able to boast that a CBS psychologist had concluded that "TV programs do not cause juvenile delinquency, nor do they constitute one of the several causes." One executive argued that TV shows were no more violent than fairy tales ("Mother Goose is full of acts of violence"), and ABC Vice President Robert Hinckley, who appeared out of patience with the whole idea of a hearing, said that TV "is a very young industry, while juvenile delinquency is very, very...
...Spanish proverb does not work out if doing nothing is carried too far. In a small attic office at McGill University in Montreal, Psychologist Woodburn Heron pays students $20 a day to lie on a soft bed in a soundproofed, air-conditioned cubicle. The students' eyes are covered by translucent goggles so that they see only a foggy glow. On their hands they wear cardboard gauntlets over thick gloves to deaden their sense of touch...
...Warns Psychologist Dichter: the hospital patient's typical emotional crisis affects not only his recovery, but "such decidedly practical matters as the rate of payment of bills [or] the success of fund-raising drives...
...most people, the very word "hospital" has emotionally disturbing overtones, and by the time they are admitted as patients they have symptoms that have nothing to do with their medical or surgical problems. So writes Psychologist Ernest Dichter in The Modern Hospital. His main conclusions after a nationwide survey...