Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Because children of different age groups suffer different sorts of psychological problems about nuclear warfare, their parents must be prepared to use different methods to allay their fears, argues the pamphlet's author. Psychologist Sibylle Escalona of Albert Einstein College of Medicine. But one problem is common to all parents and all children: nuclear war hazards are particularly difficult to discuss because parents know so little about them. And the one thing that all youngsters want, from kindergarten through adolescence, is certainty...
Grade-school children, says Psychologist Escalona, want facts: How big are the bombs? How deep should the shelters be? What is the speed of the missiles? Parents who take the trouble can find the answers to such questions.* But they may still be stumped by "What will we find when we come out of the shelter?" The only thing to do, says the psychologist, is to discuss these unanswerables calmly and reasonably...
...Psychologist Hudson so surprised at his results with the Getzels-Jackson test...
Liberal arts majors on campus, and in later life, too, often get a grating impression that physical science majors consider the choice of "hard" sciences an automatic proof of intellectual superiority. But is it? Definitely not in Britain, anyway, says Psychologist Liam Hudson of Cambridge University-not if the criterion is a capacity for imaginative thinking...
...Psychologist Hudson gave Getzels-Jackson tests to 95 schoolboys, aged 15 to 17. To his own surprise, the top scores came from those specializing in history and English literature. The least creative, according to Hudson's findings: physical science students. Young scientists, says Hudson, "tend to be less intellectually flexible than young arts specialists, and more restricted emotionally...