Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will the data be used? Nicholas Zill, the research psychologist who directed the study for Temple University's Institute for Survey Research, said he hoped his report would give children a voice in influencing their own "physical and psychological well-being." One of his chief recommendations: stricter regulation in the "disaster area" of television...
Stanton E. Samenow, a clinical psychologist at Saint Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington, also spoke yesterday at the opening session and discussed research which supports Szasz's views...
CHILDREN tend to be physically and psychologically healthier when there are fewer of them in a family-and when they are wanted. The University of Michigan's Robert Zajonc, a psychologist who studies educational trends closely, already notes a marked rise in the IQs of the ZPGeneration now in primary school. Verbal and linguistic skills, he finds, increase in inverse proportion to the size of the family; smaller families, as he puts it, are "more adult-oriented than sibling-oriented." Education may revert in part from classroom to living room. Children may again receive wisdom from respected, caring elders...
...this week that changed. At a conference in Denver, the AAAS elected 178 scientists to honorary "fellow" status. One of them was Arthur Jensen, a controversial University of California psychologist who has claimed blacks are genetically inferior to whites in certain areas of mental ability...
...smoke," says the grim-looking man in the Winston cigarette ad. Columbia Psychologist Stanley Schachter, 54, agrees that it is better not to ask. The Winston man-or any other heavy smoker-would probably say he smokes for pleasure, or because it calms his nerves, gives him something to do with his hands or solves his Freudian oral problems. "Almost any smoker can convince you and himself that he smokes for psychological reasons or that smoking does something positive for him-it's all very unlikely," says Schachter, a virtual chain smoker himself. "We smoke because...