Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Psychologist John Cone of the University of West Virginia has found that electricity customers tend to cut down if they are reminded-constantly, each day-of actual dollars spent. They fail to respond to a mere general reminder to save their money. Says Cone: "What people need is more specific feed back about how much [energy] they are really using on a daily basis." Americans, in other words, must not merely be told but convinced of their self-interest before they will alter their habitual behavior even in a minor...
...working as a hospital psychologist in an undisclosed Western city, Herbert may still win his four-year-old libel suit if he can prove in some other way that CBS's allegations against him were false, damaging and recklessly made. Whatever the outcome, both sides would feel better if the Supreme Court some day settled the question of whether a journalist can be forced to divulge his thoughts and opinions. "As long as the question is open," says Lando, "any time a reporter sits down to discuss something with his editor, he'll keep in the back...
...women's liberation movement. One of young people's primary interests is love-falling in love and getting married. That's a new phenomenon. For the first time in history, more people may be getting married just for love than for other reasons." Donald Johnson, psychologist at the University of Colorado, sees a similar trend. Says he: "The promiscuity concept is dying out like crazy. People are talking about fidelity. It's a revolution against loneliness...
PATERNALISM IS ONE of the milder forms of treatment freshmen can expect from upperclassmen. Shrinivas Rajagopalan, a UHS psychologist who will teach psychology and Social Relations 2400, "The Psychology of Freshmen," in the spring, says that the more violent reactions to freshmen, like scorn, practical jokes and physical cruelty, represent a realization by the upperclassmen that he too was once ignorant and helpless. He says we should keep in mind that "being a freshman for nine months is a stage we all have to go through on the way to adulthood, much like being a fetus before...
Outsiders find the escape artist's life difficult to understand. To some, they may appear a strange bunch, seeking the masochistic pleasure of being tied up with ropes and chains. In that vein, psychologist Bernard C. Meyer, author of Houdini A Mind in Chains, claims Houdini's behavior was the product of a "tortured and neurotic mind," preoccupied with images of its own death. And certainly, there would appear to be some truth to the idea that only a certain type of person will seek, among other pastimes, to have himself tied up and thrown into a river...