Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kazuo Shimada, a Tokyo psychologist, contends that Japanese mourners who cannot see the ashes of their fallen kin imagine the departed souls "aimlessly wandering and wailing for help." Explains one war widow who joined a senseki jumpai: "One night I dreamed a dream in which my husband stood in the corner of my room. He was full of spleen and said that even though he had committed suicide in a cave deep in a jungle, nobody had come...
...agree with Mr. Dyer's view that tests of specific kinds of competence can and should be used to assess the effectiveness of teaching methods and curricula. None of these ideas is in the least original or newsworthy; I would be surprised to find an admissions officer or educational psychologist who disagreed with them...
...Politics of Terror" [March 4] attributes to me the celebrated "skyjacker profile." In fact, I have been a serious critic of efforts to employ such methods. The profile is rightfully attributed to Psychologist John Dailey of the Federal Aviation Administration, Washington...
Even hardened criminals in the Kansas state industrial reformatory in Hutchinson might have shivered a bit when they learned the news: a self-proclaimed witch was in the prison. He was not a convict but Robert J. Williams, 45, one of the three staff psychologists. Williams is a member of what he calls the Gardnerian sect, an occult paganistic group that worships a two-headed, male-female godhead and performs some of its ceremonies in the nude (and refers to both male and female mem bers as witches). After the Wichita Eagle and the Beacon ran the story last November...
...continuing news stories about Watergate developments could have an impact on the trials. A recent Columbia University study, for instance, found that a mock panel of jurors exposed to prejudicial news stories was far more likely to convict than were jurors who had read only carefully neutral articles. Social Psychologist Alice Padawer-Singer, a co-director of the study, concluded that thorough questioning of potential jurors is critical to obtaining an impartial trial. The process not only eliminates most prejudiced candidates, she reports, but "sensitizes chosen jurors to all aspects of the case." That is, the panel members become impressed...