Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deception was carried out by Pygmalion's authors, Harvard Social Psychologist Robert Rosenthal and Lenore Jacobson, former principal of South San Francisco's Spruce School. They told the teachers that a new test could predict which slow-learning students were likely to "show an unusual forward spurt of academic and intellectual functioning." The exam, actually a routine but unfamiliar intelligence test, was given to all pupils. Teachers were then told which students had displayed a high potential for improvement. The names were actually drawn...
Nowhere is the psychiatric approach to screening more distrusted than in the South and Southwest. None of the big cities in Texas, Oklahoma or New Mexico, for example, employ a psychiatrist or psychologist to look over job candidates. Atlanta Police Chief Herbert Jenkins relies on dozens of interviews with the applicant's acquaintances. "We're looking for a man who is able to get along with people, period," says Jenkins. "That may sound very amateurish, but it's the best psychological test that can be made...
...this month after complaining about "authoritarian rule by remote, inaccessible powers." He urged that younger people, including some students and faculty, be made trustees (the average age is now 62). In filling a new vacancy, the board last week ignored this advice, passed over such proposed candidates as Negro Psychologist Kenneth Clark to select its usual type: Wall Street Investment Banker Harold A. Rousselot...
...enthusiasm of La Leche mothers is now receiving increased scientific support. A husband-wife team of physician and psychologist, Dr. Michael Newton and Dr. Niles Newton of Chicago, point out in the New England Journal of Medicine that the survival of the species originally depended upon "the satisfactions gained from the two voluntary acts of reproduction-coitus and breast feeding. These had to be sufficiently pleasurable to ensure their frequent occurrence." There never has been any argument about the pleasure of coitus, but the satisfactions of lactation were submerged in the prudery and false modesty of the Edwardian...
Keeping a Distance. Otto Klineberg, a social psychologist from Columbia who is now a visiting professor at the Sorbonne, was struck by the contrast with his students at home. "In my seminars at Columbia, I could hardly talk for three minutes before I was interrupted. Here, it is hard to get the students to talk at all. One has to draw them out. This is the culmination of a long effort to keep a distance between the teachers and the students...