Word: psychologist
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...ruling that the Senate Watergate committee had not shown a sufficient need for presidential tape recordings to override Nixon's claim of Executive privilege. If he cites Nixon for contempt in the Ellsberg case, Gesell, 63, may become as well known as his father, the late child psychologist and pediatrician Arnold Gesell...
...Psychologists maintain that the most assiduous procrastinators are women, though many psychologists are (at $50-plus an hour) pretty good delayers themselves. Dr. Ralph Greenson, a U.C.L.A. professor of clinical psychiatry (and Marilyn Monroe's onetime shrink), takes a fairly gentle view of procrastination. "To many people," he says, "doing something, confronting, is the moment of truth. All frightened people will then avoid the moment of truth entirely, or evade or postpone it until the last possible moment." To Georgia State Psychologist Joen Pagan, however, procrastination may be a kind of subliminal way of sorting the important from...
...active sexually than men-at least in the confines of their new dormitories. At one Eastern school, for example, 47% of the women had sex in the dorms but only 42% of the men did so. Both sexes, however, prefer to bring in partners from outside. This, says one psychologist involved in setting up coed dorms at Harvard, is easily explainable. Says Jerome Kagan: "Romance tends to flourish when there is some mystery between partners, and sharing bathrooms loses a bit of the mystery...
...most rapid turnabouts in our history, college youth-the chief source of social dissidence in the '60s-has moved swiftly toward reconciliation with the larger society, while the noncollege majority has taken over many of the campus-bred values." So says Social Psychologist Daniel Yankelovich, whose research firm has just completed an extensive survey of American youth for five private foundations.* Among the survey's major findings and conclusions about college youth...
...three years. Beyond that, part of the longer-term problem is rooted in social changes. There is an increasing restiveness among young workers, reflected in on-the-job drug use, alcoholism and high absenteeism. A survey of 3,500 young people between 16 and 25 by Social Psychologist Daniel Yankelovich, released last week, concluded that discontent among young workers who do not have college degrees has greatly increased in the past four years (see EDUCATION). In general, fewer and fewer of them believe that "hard work always pays...