Word: psychologist
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Maybe the problem lies in the very anonymity that I had hoped would so liberate our spirits. A Swarthmore psychologist found in the '70s that if you put a group of total strangers together in the dark, they do things they wouldn't think of doing with the lights on--like grope. This is a result, apparently, of sexual repression. Put us in cyberspace wearing masks like "Demonboy," and an awful lot of us become gropers in the dark...
...might also grate on his children, who Simpson claims are his first priority. "The more commotion and instability there is in a child's life, the more difficult it will be for them to adjust," says Steven Kanter, a Cleveland child psychologist. "There's also the added factor of the death of their mother. That scar will never completely heal." Still, Simpson might well learn something about equanimity from the way one of his children is dealing with her pain. Juditha Brown says that after she gave the kids over to Simpson, Sydney called on the phone to console...
...hero to most blacks, but he has become an indelible symbol of their mistreatment by white authority. "We always reach out to another black person we perceive as being mistreated by whites because it has happened to so many of us," says Darlene Powell Hopson, a black clinical psychologist. Says political scientist Andrew Hacker, author of Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal: "I hear a lot of anger from even middle-class and professional blacks about this. They believe that the police, the prosecutors, the whole criminal justice system are out to tear down black men, especially successful...
Kidman, though, does have a will of kryptonite, forged in Sydney, where she was raised by her father, a biochemist and clinical psychologist, and her mother, a teacher of nursing. As a girl, she was embarrassed by her height. And while her friends surfed, fair-skinned Nicole fretted about freckling. Drama was the solution. "It was natural for me," she says, "to want to disappear into a dark theater." Soon she had the poise that would bloom into a regal grace under pressure in Dead Calm, Days of Thunder (where she met Cruise) and Billy Bathgate, as Dutch Schultz...
Some aspects of emotional intelligence, however, can be quantified. Optimism, for example, is a handy measure of a person's self-worth. According to Martin Seligman, a University of Pennsylvania psychologist, how people respond to setbacks--optimistically or pessimistically--is a fairly accurate indicator of how well they will succeed in school, in sports and in certain kinds of work. To test his theory, Seligman devised a questionnaire to screen insurance salesmen at MetLife...