Word: psychologist
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...researcher, Patrick Rabbitt, 46, is an Oxford University psychologist who specializes in the problems of aging, including memory loss. Over the years, Rabbitt has found that people 70 and older prefer talking to one person at a time: the one-on-one situation focuses attention and shores up poor memory. In a group conversation, the elderly are likely to be tense and more easily confused. While they seem able to remember what was said, they forget who said it, or to whom it was said. In a series of tests with men and women 70 and over, Rabbitt...
Though Phelps celebrates females who have brains and energy, her feminist lens at times distorts the drama beneath the surface of folk tales. As Psychologist Bruno Bettelheim made clear in The Uses of Enchantment, most protagonists in fairy tales are passive because the children who listen to them feel at the mercy of events and want to be reassured. Beauty or handsomeness is a routine signal to the child of moral worth...
...David Lopata, a slim, bearded VA psychologist, lets the men into a conference room. It is the afternoon group therapy outpatient session for veterans suffering from a disorder called "posttraumatic stress." Several patients light cigarettes. Lopata asks softly, "Okay, where do we begin today?" A stocky blond veteran opens up slowly: "I don't feel that I trust anybody ... Maybe it's just that they don't understand. I don't know, but look at us. None of us at this table has any real friends." "How do you talk about what happened over there?" another asks...
...years to life, acting State Supreme Court Justice Dennis Edwards promised that in return for the guilty plea, he would not receive more than 20 years to life. At Chapman's sentencing on Aug. 24, Marks plans to use the testimony of two psychiatrists and one psychologist-as well as his defendant's God-given plea-to argue that Chapman is insane and thus should be given the most lenient sentence...
Getting into these gilded institutions is more than half the battle for success in France. American Psychologist Kenneth Keniston characterizes the time spent in special classes preparing for entrance examinations as a "period spent in the monastery." Each school has its own stiff requirements for an aspiring entrant, which are, says Keniston, "torture and mysterious rites of passage which test his qualifications for membership in the caste of sorcerers. Once they are accepted as full members, the other members will do everything possible to guarantee their success." Family ties also help, but only if the youngster has the brains...