Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...University of California, Psychologist Charles Tart reports that his subjects showed a marked increase in ESP scores after working with his new teaching machine...
Thus, Satch the Psychologist has shown he knows the principles of human motivation. But whether he will be able to mold a team that is a playing unit with such tactics is another matter. Sanders benched Carey after he had burst to six of the first eight Crimson points on the Quakers, although the only thing standing between the sophomore All-State Michigan forward and future All-Ivy berths is a hefty dose of confidence. Jenkins has changed from a former consistency to mercurial play. Silver, the pillar of the Harvard offense for so long this year, looks...
Blacks as a group consistently score lower than whites on standard IQ tests. That is a fact no one can dispute. But the reason for the discrepancy has become a matter of heated dispute -sparked largely by the widely publicized theories of Psychologist Arthur Jensen and Physicist William Shockley. The two men suggest that genetic factors account for the differences. Others, like University of Pennsylvania Anthropologist Peggy Sanday, insist that the differences are environmental. Last week Sanday buttressed her case by reporting the results of her own study...
...good enough for someone whose whole business is the delicate shading of every sense and tone. Such horrors as the scene in The Magic Mountain when Thomas Mann has his heroine ask to borrow the hero's pencil are ample warning that novels ought to be sources for the psychologist and not vice versa. For Nabokov, art is more fundamental than sex. And even Freud, unlike many Freudians, realized, 1) that sex isn't the only form of Sex, and 2) that a cigar is sometimes just a cigar...
...superficiality. Many of them complain that it says too little about unconscious motivation and that it implies that a few hours of reading will substitute for years of psychotherapy. But generally it is regarded as a harmless way to invest $4.95. Says David Orlinsky, a University of Chicago psychologist: "It's cheaper than tranquilizers. Why shouldn't publishers as well as pharmaceutical houses make money...