Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nowhere, Korda and Ringer are preaching to a growing number of converts. Says Paula Landau, consultant for an "assertion" training group in North Hollywood, Calif: "There is an unprecedented feeling of loss of control. The middle class is losing out, and they know it." According to U.C.L.A. Psychologist Manuel Smith, author of the self-assertion bestseller When I Say No I Feel Guilty, "There is the feeling that all the institutions we believed in are bullshit...
...young who seem most likely to overcome the psychological handicaps under which many women labor. In a classic study eleven years ago, Psychologist Matina Horner, now president...
...jobs, has placed women as carpenters, machinists, diesel mechanics, laborers and truck drivers. One 24-year-old has a bachelor's degree in psychology from Antioch College but now works in Seattle as an auto mechanic, for $5.45 per hour, which, she says, "is better than being an unemployed psychologist...
Herbert Kelman, Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics, criticized such studies in a 1972 article in American Psychologist. "Such a procedure," Kelman wrote, "on the basis of a rather massive deception, places the subject in a situation...that may (whether or not he decides to help the victim) be very disturbing to him-- without giving him any choice in the matter...
Once underway, the study may continue to influence its subjects and their relationships. "In some cases," Rubin writes in an upcoming article in the American Psychologist coauthored by his former research assistant, Cynthia Mitchell, "our study served to strengthen a relationship; in other cases, to facilitate its dissolution." Rubin believes that the study affected, one way or the other, "considerably more than half of the couples...