Word: psychologist
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These are some of the striking statistics that provided the underpinnings of All Our Children, The American Family Under Pressure, a report to be issued this week by the Carnegie Council on Children. Headed by Kenneth Keniston, the M.I.T. psychologist known for his studies of dissenting youth in the '60s, the eleven-member council has spent the past five years probing "what American society is doing to and for children." For starters, the researchers debunk the "myth of the self-sufficient family" and the still widely held belief that parents alone are responsible for what becomes of their children...
...maybe he is. At least, that's the impression the reader gets from The Gamesman, psychologist Michael Maccoby '54's latest entry in the pop sociology derby. Maccoby's book is an interesting profile of what he calls the new American corporate elite, a series of case studies designed to illustrate exactly just what type of person runs the companies thatrun your life. Maccoby's answer--that American companies are presided over by a passel of hyperactive, hypercool chess players who are only in the business world for the thrill of the sport--may sound a bit farfetched...
...Berkeley psychologist Arthur R. Jensen, who caused an academic furor in 1969 when he declared blacks are genetically inclined to lower I.Q.s than whites, moderated his position this summer...
...should it be so? To Psychologist James J. Lynch, 38, author of a new book, The Broken Heart: The Medical Consequences of Loneliness (Basic Books; $10.95), the answer is obvious: loneliness kills. Says he: "Loneliness is not only pushing our culture to the breaking point, it is pushing our physical health to the breaking point...
...overboard about biography, so to speak, but I think Edel's psychological method offers interesting insights," says Senior Peter Tagge. An ardent sailor, Tagge is writing for his course project a profile of round-the-world Sailor Robin Knox-Johnston. Diane Kilpatrick, a psychologist at Dartmouth's student health center, was also drawn by Edel's analytic method. When Edel proved at the first session to be "a fascinating storyteller," she juggled her schedule so that she could audit the course and has attended "religiously" ever since...