Word: psychologist
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Though none of the copycats has yet been caught, the phenomenon is chillingly common enough-in the rash of airplane hijackings, for instance-to give psychologists ideas about what kind of personalities are involved. Says Arthur Schueneman, senior clinical psychologist at the Northwestern University Rehabilitation Institute: "These people are often stirred to excitement by news reports. They may have longstanding impulses, barely contained, that are triggered by these events: anger, thrill seeking, retribution against injustice, real or imagined." Helen Morrison, an authority on mass murder, sums up their motives: "Better to be wanted by the police than...
...there any comfort for consumers who now hesitate to pick any sort of product off a grocery or drugstore shelf? Psychologist Schueneman, who predicted the wave of copycat tamperings, provides a kind of backhand reassurance. He says, "I think it will be short-lived." His reasoning: before long, copycat tamperings will become so common that they will no longer provide thrill seekers with the excitement that they crave...
Some buffs, like Los Angeles Psychologist Barbara Griffiths, even see mail-order shopping as a way of curbing impulse buying. After ordering a $180 suit from a catalogue, she mused: "If I had bought the suit in a store, I would probably have bought other items, like a blouse or shoes or a purse. Somehow, the catalogue satisfies that same need to buy without turning me on to buy things that I really don't need." Businesswoman Sheridan Coles, who runs a 24-hour telephone answering service in Phoenix, knows only "roughly" where the city's shopping centers...
...tempting to offer armchair psychologist explanations of DELOREAN's fall. You might conclude, after a careful scrutiny of his life, that DeLorean was bound to run into trouble because he could never be satisfied with what he had. There was, it seems, this constant need to push harder, go higher, that finally extended him beyond his limits. It could have simply been a case of pride. A few years ago. DeLorean wrote a much publicized book entitled On a Clear Day, You Can See General Motors that viciously but accurately detailed the shortcomings of America's automobile industry. There...
According to Chris Hatcher, a psychologist at the University of California, San Francisco, the personality of the arsonist or bomber, rather than the mass murderer, may be the most appropriate model for understanding the Tylenol murderer. "Other killers," he says, "have a certain satisfaction in stalking their victims. But this is a much more technically oriented crime; the killer does not perceive as clearly the actual death of his victims." Who gets killed appears to be a matter of indifference. Even gunmen like Charles Whitman, who killed 16 people from his perch in a Texas tower in 1966, have more...