Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...moon," he barks on The Honeymooners, his clenched fist waving. "To the moon, Alice." But if people on the one hand laugh off private violence, they become raving, sputtering mad about it too. "The pendulum swings to two extremes," says A. Nicholas Groth, a Connecticut prison psychologist. "Either people blame the victim, or see the offender as a fiend who ought to be castrated." As the analyses of private violence on the following pages show, the hard duty is to look straight at the problems and, neither laughing nor ranting, figure out what reasonable people can do. ?By Kurt...
Many men, and even many women, believe that abused wives have a masochistic streak that keeps them in the home long after the beatings have begun. But Michigan Psychologist Camella Serum dismisses such assumptions as folklore. "Masochism has no relevance in this situation. It is just another way to blame the victim. The reason she stays has nothing to do with loving the pain or seeking the violence...
These physical and social achievements have long been obvious: any mother can see them in her own children. What the new research demonstrates is that babies' mental growth can be as early and as striking as the rest of its development. Robert Cooper, a psychologist with Southwest Texas State University, is even testing a group of ten- to twelve-month-old children on their ability to recognize different numbers. They can master up to four, but he adds that "beyond four, there's some controversy." By showing his little subjects various groups of objects, Cooper demonstrates that they...
...nothing else, the push toward earlier education gives infants a valuable chance at making friends. Says Psychologist Colwyn Trevarthen of the University of Edinburgh: "They really have this intrinsic social capacity, and that's what human beings have evolved for, just as giraffes have evolved for eating high leaves...
...early education itself really desirable? Does the discovery that a young child can absorb large quantities of knowledge require that it be stuffed like a Strasbourg goose? There were social reasons for launching Project Head Start in the 1960s to get poor children into preschool programs. Most psychologists engaged in the new research, however, are strongly opposed to any formal schooling before the age of three or four, even if the child is capable of it. "We know that babies are coming into the world with a lot more sophisticated skills than we had previously thought...