Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What is the rationale for such sadistic nonsense? Says Psychologist Gary Margolis, director of counseling at Vermont's Middlebury College: "It's a tragic vestige of ancient tribal customs in which painful initiation rites were extremely important. To prove one's masculinity you had to experience pain. The more pain, the closer the male bond became." Adds Willard Broom, Illinois' associate dean of campus services and programs: "It's all a physical dependence process. I guess it's sort of the way the Army does basic training...
Harvard Social Psychologist Abraham Zaleznik, 52, who wrote a working paper on the development of leadership, noted that in many leaders there is a "cleavage between himself and the outer world." This creates in him "a demand that he or she accomplish something different or special." But Zaleznik conceded that the result could be destructiveness as well as great achievement...
Recent charges that an English psychologist faked research results on the relationship between genetic inheritance and intelligence have sparked controversy at Harvard concerning the extent to which Richard J. Herrnstein, professor of Psychology, relied on the allegedly faked studies in his own work...
...polls might be alarming, but the body language was fine. That, at any rate, was the view of Psychologist-Author Ernst Beier (People-Reading), who diagnosed Jimmy Carter's debating style. "Swiveling shoulders and licking his lips," Carter has a definite edge over Gerald Ford, "the wooden Indian." It was one of the best things said about the swiveling Carter campaign all week...
...natural state is happy. It is society (culture, laws, social expectations) that makes him unhappy. Psychologist Fitzhugh Dodson writes in The You That Could Be: "Our society . . . grabs ahold of these spontaneous, loving, self-confident toddlers . . . and makes them into caricatures of the persons they could...