Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...become miniature adults. "There is a desire to have children grow up quicker and quicker," says Fassler. "This manifests itself in many ways: how quickly can we teach them to read, toilet train them; how early can we get them into the most exclusive preschool?" Jack Wetter, a clinical psychologist in West Los Angeles, says he observed a goldilocked four-year-old in preschool. "I asked her what she was doing, and she replied, 'Can't talk now. Working on Workbook 2. Going to Workbook...
Experts make an important distinction between talented kids and true prodigies: a prodigy instinctively knows his rare gifts and is almost impossible to control or sway. "The power and force of what that child wants to do is coming from within," says David Henry Feldman, a developmental psychologist who is head of the Eliot-Pearson Child Development Department at Tufts University. "You'd almost have to kill that child to keep him or her from doing what he or she wants." Rita May, who brought up her family in Chapel Hill, found herself in that position when her son David...
...fact, investigate the device but found nothing improper. To many who have worked with him, Wigand possesses great integrity and refuses to engage in corporate gamesmanship. "If someone hands him a line of crap, he says, 'That's a line of crap,'" says Richard O'Leary, a psychologist and colleague of Wigand's in the 1980s at E. Merck Diagnostic Systems. Although O'Leary says his colleague was sometimes impatient, "I have never known him to cross the line into abusive behavior...
...advantage of a virtual affair is that it shifts the emphasis in a relationship from outward appearances to inner thoughts and feelings. Result: a quick and intense intimacy. That tends to make women happy. "It forces men to do something they don't normally engage in: communication," says psychologist Al Cooper of the San Jose Marital and Sexuality Centre. "You have to communicate...
Even when people are truthful, online relationships are necessarily limited. "You're only accessing a portion of a person," points out psychologist Michelle Weil of Orange, California. "As people, we need a tactile physical presence to make a complete bond. We need to see their face, see their gestures and smell their breath." Jonathan Steuer, an Internet consultant who lives in San Francisco with a woman he courted by E-mail, agrees: "Finding someone online is great as long as you take it to the face-to-face level and have a real-life relationship...