Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Silence is the lack of noise," argues Newman; "quiet is the lack of distraction." Of the two, quiet is preferable. "A certain amount of noise is necessary to retain our sanity," agrees Psychologist George A. Talland of Massachusetts General Hospital's Psychiatric Research Laboratories...
...astronaut. Referring to the tension of the long wait. Dr. Generales said: "Like any good soldier, Glenn would never admit that it affected him. But on the psychological, subconscious level, these things could affect in-flight performance." Dr. Generales' view was quickly challenged by Dr. Robert Voas, a psychologist who works with the astronauts. Said he: "There's no evidence that he's building up any frustrations or annoyances. If you really wanted to make John Glenn anxious, you'd have to threaten him with the possibility of a substitution of astronauts." Said Project Mercury...
What this means is that it is much easier for a man to think of himself as a psychologist, a historian, a sociologist, a classicist, a specialist in Elizabethan drama than as someone who is engaged in liberal education. And he is more concerned in communicating his discipline to the students than in educating them. Obviously this is a large and general charge and there are exceptions. But since it is the discipline that has prestige, the professor is oriented generally to what is most characteristic of the discipline. This means the newest thinking in his specialty, the most abstract...
...Cart Pfaffmann, a psychologist known for his research on the sense of taste, will be visiting professor of psychology at the University during the academic year...
...well-known psychologist, Dr. McClelland was graduated from Wesleyan University in 1938 and received his Ph.D. from Yale in 1941. He holds honorary degrees from Harvard, Wesleyan and Mains (Johannes Gutenberg Universitat). Dr. McClelland is presently working on a project relating the need for achievement motivation to economic growth...