Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...them was Ray Hyman, a psychology professor from the University of Oregon who is used frequently by DOD as a consultant. Another was George Lawrence, DOD projects manager for the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA). He was accompanied to SRI by Robert Van de Castle, a University of Virginia psychologist and longtime researcher in parapsychology. Van de Castle decided that Geller was "an interesting subject for further study," but neither Lawrence nor Hyman was impressed. After spending a day with Geller and Physicists Targ and Puthoff, Hyman was, in fact, incredulous...
...penny for the series, allow such public scrutiny of their lives? "I think there are a lot of American families who would let this happen," says Dr. Thomas Cottle, a psychotherapist at M.I.T. "It is a compulsion of this culture-the compulsion to confess." Dr. Roderick Gorney, a psychologist at U.C.L.A., agrees. "Ten years ago the Louds wouldn't have permitted TV to film intimate details of their domestic life. But the sense of privacy has been very much changed." Asks Bill, a handsome six-footer who amiably acknowledges that he is quite a ham: "What would you have...
...human being loses brain cells. They die at a rate that can accelerate to as many as 100,000 per day by age 60, and unlike other cells they are not replaced. That dismaying loss would seem to ensure a substantial decline in mental capacity by middle age. But Psychologist Jon Kangas, director of the University of Santa Clara Counseling Center, believes that despite the diminishing number of brain cells, IQ may actually increase with age. In a recent study, Kangas found that the IQs of 48 men and women in the San Francisco Bay area went up about...
Relying on drugs to control fidgety children is a dangerous course for any teacher, no matter how well-meaning he may be. Even trained specialists sometimes find it hard to diagnose hyperkinesis, since symptoms of the disease include, as Berkeley Psychologist John Hurst puts it, "almost everything that adults don't like about children...
...Palo Alto, Calif., nine-year-old Kent's teacher and the school psychologist talked his parents into administering drugs to control the boy's mischievous and belligerent behavior. The amphetamines, however, only made Kent depressed. Frequently he complained of feeling persecuted by other children and cried himself to sleep. His parents took him to a psychiatrist, who concluded that all the boy needed was more activity to use up his frenetic energy...