Word: psychologist
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Until recently, research into behavioral genetics was dominated by psychiatrists and psychologists, who based their most compelling conclusions about the importance of genes on studies of identical twins. For example, psychologist Michael Bailey of Northwestern University famously demonstrated that if one identical twin is gay, there is about a 50% likelihood that the other will be too. Seven years ago, Hamer picked up where the twin studies left off, homing in on specific strips of DNA that appear to influence everything from mood to sexual orientation...
...charismatic, that it's hard to come to any conclusions about him as a person. Every attempt I know of has failed miserably. The phenomenon of Gorbachev has not yet been explained, and most of what I've read on the subject reminds me of how a biologist, psychologist, lawyer or statistician might describe an angel...
...dryness, pain during intercourse and problems in achieving orgasm. Indeed, according to one study, more than a third of women in the 18-to-59 age group experience sexual dysfunction, compared with just 10% of men. "Male sexuality has always been viewed as more important," says Julia Heiman, a psychologist at the University of Washington and one of the nation's leading experts on female sexual dysfunction. "A man needs an erection to have intercourse, so it's easy to regard a man's sexuality as important and a woman's as sort of an interesting pastime...
Last week all that changed. In a paper published in the journal Nature, psychologist Martha McClintock of the University of Chicago reported what may be the best evidence yet of human pheromones. In an elegantly straightforward experiment, she was able to speed up and slow down the monthly cycles of a group of women by exposing them to a whiff of sweat from other women. The ovulatory command, she believes, was carried by pheromones...
...currently working on a book about man's initiation into the feminine world with Marian Woodman, a Canadian psychologist...