Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there is an opposite fear that drives anxious executives toward the machines: the worry that younger and more sophisticated rivals will push ahead of them. "All you have to do," says Alexander Horniman, an industrial psychologist at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business, "is walk down the hall and see people using the computer and imagine they have access to all sorts of information you don't." Argues Harold Todd, executive vice president at First Atlanta Bank: "Managers who do not have the ability to use a terminal within three
...Some 73% of the respondents believed that the computer revolution would enable more people to work at home. But only 31 % said they would prefer to do so themselves. Most work no longer involves a hay field, a coal mine or a sweatshop, but a field for social intercourse. Psychologist Abraham Maslow defined work as a hierarchy of functions: it first provides food and shelter, the basics, but then it offers security, friendship, "belongingness." This is not just a matter of trading gossip in the corridors; work itself, particularly in the information industries, requires the stimulation of personal contact...
Marjorie's two roommates come home to this bizarre scene. Terry (Ellen Barkin), having once been raped, has no stomach for reliving it. Patricia (Deborah Hedwall) is a card-carrying pop psychologist who wants to relock the Pandora's box of irrationality. She is given to such phrases as "Define your terms" and "I can relate to that...
...show that 77% of Catholics think that the law should permit abortion for a danger to the mother's life, and 44% for social reasons, such as a family's poverty. American Catholics widely disregard the Pope and bishops on birth control. Says Loyola University of Chicago Psychologist and ex-Priest Eugene Kennedy: "You can't deliver a Catholic vote on anything any more-Catholics are not one isolated bloc with homogeneous interests...
Jadith B. Coben said she also began her writing career indirectly, thinking of it as a career she could always fall back on. But her plans for receiving a teaching degree were interrupted by a 1960's concern for doing something "socially relevant." After working as a child psychologist, and teaching at Goddard College in Vermont, she began to question her career and started writing again...