Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wheedled U.S. firms into supplying equipment at cut-rate prices: lightweight oxygen tanks, walkie-talkies, 13 tons of freeze-dried food, vitamins, Metrecal wafers. Then Dyhrenfurth picked his team: 20 men, each an experienced part-time mountain climber, each a specialist in his full-time field-a physicist, a psychologist, a philosopher, a geologist, a geographer, physicians, a sociologist. The expedition was more than a sporting assault: on Everest, Dr. William Siri planned to measure the effects of solar radiation, study the effects of high altitudes on the human mind and body. Even the team's diarist was something...
...example is the James-Lange theory of the emotions. In presenting this theory James superbly displayed those gifts that brought him renown as a psychologist: novelty, lucidity, effective argumentation. "Commonsense says, we loose our fortune, are sorry and weep; we meet a bear, are frightened and run; we are insulted by a rival, are angry and strike. The hypothesis there to be defended says that this order of sequence is incorrect, that the one mental state is not immediately induced by the other, that the bodily manifestations must first be interposed between, and that the more rational statement is that...
...James did sit still long enough to accomplish something. Undeniably he belongs to the first rank of American philosophers. And his status in the behavioral sciences is, if anything, more exalted: most recent commentators regard him as the greatest psychologist in the history of this country. When the new building for the behavioral sciences was approved, the decision to commemorate James in its names was very nearly a foregone conclusion. Currently, moreover, the bookshops bear witness to a spirited revival of interest in his writings...
...This is the first in a series of articles on William James, the psychologist and philosopher for whom the new behavioral sciences building will be named...
...Education article on Shimer [April 19], you list that college as "one of eleven U.S. campuses that have an ideal 'intellectual climate' in the opinion of Syracuse University Psychologist George G. Stern...