Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rein in dissident theologians. Chicago Psychologist (and former priest) Eugene Kennedy sums up the strategy: "He is clearly positioning the church for the next century, where its source of strength will be in Africa. He may have sacrificed the Western intellectuals in the church, but in the long run they may turn out to be unimportant...
...Walkman, with its imitators, is a product defining its time, the way television focused the style of the late '50s. Says Detroit Psychologist Gail Parker: "The growth of these things is another result of the 'me society.' These machines are very selfish. When someone is involved in loud music, they're sending out a signal to the rest of the world to be left alone." Pinstriped Businessman Wade Schilders, 24, listening to Dvorak in midtown Manhattan, hits his "hot line" (allowing intrusion by real-world noise) to disagree: "Some people say the gadgets are isolating...
DIED. David Wechsler, 85, chief psychologist at New York City's Bellevue Hospital from 1932 to 1967 and the author of a series of widely used intelligence tests, including the Wechsler-Bellevue Intelligence Scale, the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children and the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale; in New York City. A critic of conventional IQ tests that measure only reasoning and logic, Wechsler argued that intelligence is actually made up of a variety of factors, including temperament, impulse and instinct...
...formulation of Psychologist Abraham Maslow, work functions in a hierarchy of needs: first, work provides food and shelter, basic human maintenance. After that, it can address the need for security and then for friendship and "belongingness." Next, the demands of the ego arise, the need for aspect. Finally, men and women assert a larger desire for "self-actualization." That seems a harmless and even worthy enterprise but sometimes degenerates into self-infatuation, a vaporously selfish discontent that dead-ends in isolation, the empty "ace that gazes back from the mirror...
...Psychologist Maslow, for example, once wrote that he found it difficult "to conceive of feeling proud of myself, self-loving and self-respecting, if I were working, for example, in some chewing-gum factory . " Well, two weeks ago, Warner-Lambert announced that it would close down its gum-manufacturing American Chicle factory in Long Island City, N.Y.; the workers who had spent years there making Dentyne and Chiclets were distraught. "It's a beautiful place to work," one feeder-catcher-packer of chewing gum said sadly. "It's just like home." There is a peculiar elitist arrogance...