Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ritually, psychologists were invoked to analyze the spring madness. "It's fundamentally a ploy to get attention," says Philip Zimbardo, a psychology professor at Stanford University. "College students are irreverent toward social values. This is an attack on dominant social values." Arthur Yehle, a psychology professor at Memphis State University, has a simple explanation. "It's spring, the weather is warm, it's something to do." Another psychologist, Dorothy Hochreich of the University of Connecticut, calls streaking "a form of escapism that doesn't seem sexual in nature. Students are working harder in school, and this...
...Awaiting trial in federal district court in New York, former Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans read an article in TIME'S Law section about the innovative techniques developed by Psychologist Richard Christie and Sociologist Jay Schulman for selecting un prejudiced juries. Although their major successes involved cases brought by the Nixon Administration against such radicals as the Gainesville Eight and the Harrisburg Seven, Stans instructed his lawyers to get in touch with Christie, who expressed interest. However, his promise to pick a fair but not necessarily winning jury failed to impress Stans' codefendant, former Attorney General John Mitchell...
...instance, 18 incorrigible delinquents inhabit the CAT house, more formally known as the Colorado Closed Adolescent Treatment Center. The kids run their own modification program, with adult guidance. It has worked astonishingly well inside the institution. But "our biggest problem is getting the kids out of here," says Psychologist Vicki Agee, who is in charge. The first five youngsters due for release all ran away shortly beforehand, then asked to return and be kept longer in the institution. That speaks highly indeed for the program but leaves it tantalizingly short of regularly turning out functioning citizens...
...leading proponent of the art is U.C.L.A. Psychologist Thelma Moss, who has taken more Kirlian photographs and done more experimental work with them than anyone outside Russia...
...those skills are acquired by humans. What they learn could eventually be useful in teaching youngsters with language difficulties. It could also open a new channel of communication between man and animal. "Wouldn't you like to know what a chimp thinks about?" says Georgia State University Psychologist Duane M. Rumbaugh...