Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Advice to Psychologists. At a Manhattan meeting of the American Psychological Association, Dr. Fred E. Fiedler of the University of Illinois cast doubt on the existence of "natural leaders." Financed by the Office of Naval Research, Psychologist Fiedler spent three years trying to find out what makes certain groups so much more effective than others. He came to the conclusion that the most important factor is not so much the ability of the leader or of the subordinates. It is the "matching" of the leader to the men under...
...Carey and Stage Designer Lemuel (Oklahoma!, Kiss Me, Kate) Ayers. Onto the prairie, meanwhile, came poets, novelists and painters (among them: Iowa-born Grant Wood). The university began a representative collection of modern American canvases, and its auditoriums began to echo with new music. Largely through the influence of Psychologist Carl Seashore, S.U.I, took on the arts wholesale, and with typical Midwestern hospitality proceeded to make them right at home. It was one of the first universities to hit upon the idea that a novel, poem or painting could be as worthy of an advanced degree as even the most...
Rockets to Godfrey. The sort of things that happen range from Physicist James Van Allen's experiments with high-altitude research rockets to Psychologist Wendell Johnson's pioneering work with stutterers, from Zoologist Harold Beam's studies on the organization of cells to the Institute of Gerontology's "clearing house" on the problems of old age. The medical school, with its three affiliated hospitals, is a major center for the treatment of handicapped children, rightfully boasts such names as Surgeon Arthur Steindler, Ophthalmologist Alson Braley, Heart Specialist William Bean, and Carroll Larson, authority on arthroplasty...
...Psychologist Plank would not go so far as to say that science-fiction writers are "crazy" because they reflect schizophrenic trends. Rather, he argues, these signs are becoming more conspicuous in a mechanized civilization. Science fiction may be bad science and worse fiction, but to a good wig-picker it "is a sensitive barometer of our changing mental climate...
...behest of Wisconsin's Joseph McCarthy, the U.S. Senate issued contempt citations against Harvard Physicist Wendell Furry and Psychologist Leon Kamin. Reason for the citations: though both men had finally discarded the use of the Fifth Amendment, and though both had freely admitted that they had once been members of the Communist Party, neither would play informer against others who might have been members too. ¶ Appointment of the week: Clark George Kuebler, 46, president of Ripon College, Wis., to succeed J. Harold Williams as second provost of the University of California's Santa Barbara College. A former...