Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...surprising number of female jurors. Many middle-class women jurors prefer not to believe young, braless and freewheeling rape victims. In particular, the myth that victims somehow provoke and accept rape is still very much alive. "In our many years of work with the sexual offender," reports Psychologist Groth and Co-Researcher Ann Wolbert Burgess, "we have yet to find a genuine case of sexual provocation on the part of a victim...
...habitual rapists "have developed an anger and contempt for women," says Nicholas Groth, chief psychologist of the Massachusetts Center for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Sexually Dan gerous Persons. But he sees the core defect as "a sense of emptiness-of being nothing, and therefore having no regard for himself or for others. When you don't have anything else-job success, friend ship, family ties-your last resort for creating your own identity is sexual aggression...
...call her to the stand to defend her statements. To determine if Patty is capable of testifying, Judge Carter appointed four experts to examine the celebrated prisoner: Psychiatrists Seymour Pollack of the University of Southern California, Donald T. Lund of Stanford University, Louis J. West of U.C.L.A., and Psychologist Margaret Thaler Singer of the University of California at Berkeley...
Rona Fields, a psychologist at Clark University in Worcester, Mass., who has studied political prisoners, feels that Patty has been put through a form of psychological torture often inflicted on such prisoners, and believes that after her release Patty acted much like political prisoners who were suddenly freed. "There's an exuberant, empty grin," says Fields, "but you had a feeling that they weren't comprehending what they were doing." The euphoria may touch off giddy and impulsive behavior, such as Patty's repeated gesture, just after her capture, of raising a clenched fist. The former prisoners...
...most vehement objections to busing are raised by lower-class whites who regard blacks as an economic threat. Says Harvard Psychologist Robert Coles: "The ultimate reality is the reality of class. Having and not having is the real issue. To talk only in terms of racism is to miss the point. Lower-income whites and blacks are both competing for a very limited piece of pie." Illustrating that point, Social Worker Jerry Carey of South Boston observes: "I know that there's no way that my sons will get to Harvard, even if they have good grades, because the admissions...