Word: psychologist
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...phrase "emotional intelligence" was coined by Yale psychologist Peter Salovey and the University of New Hampshire's John Mayer five years ago to describe qualities like understanding one's own feelings, empathy for the feelings of others and "the regulation of emotion in a way that enhances living." Their notion is about to bound into the national conversation, handily shortened to EQ, thanks to a new book, Emotional Intelligence (Bantam; $23.95) by Daniel Goleman. Goleman, a Harvard psychology Ph.D. and a New York Times science writer with a gift for making even the chewiest scientific theories digestible to lay readers...
...head of the company approached psychologist Martin Seligman at the University of Pennsylvania and invited him to test some of his theories about the importance of optimism in people's success. When optimists fail, he has found, they attribute the failure to something they can change, not some innate weakness that they are helpless to overcome. And that confidence in their power to effect change is self-reinforcing. Seligman tracked 15,000 new workers who had taken two tests. One was the company's regular screening exam, the other Seligman's test measuring their levels of optimism. Among...
Other fellows for 1995-96 include Eileen Applebaum, associate research director for the Washington based Economic Policy Institute; Lisa Dodson, senior research associate at the Health Institute of Tufts/New England Medical Center; Susan Eaton, a government consultant; Pamela Fraser-Abder, associate professor at New York University; Sharland Trotter, a psychologist and former editor of the American Psychological Association Monitor magazine; and Kirsten Wever, director of the German American Project of the International Industrial Relations Association
...before it rains, Seles has made a full physical recovery. She has even grown an inch--to 5 ft., 10 1/2 in.--and that seems to have given her even more leverage. The psychological scars, of course, were much harder to get over. She spent countless hours with sports psychologist Jerry Russell May, but it was finally Mark McCormack, the head of the all-powerful International Management Group, who cajoled her out of her isolation. Of the stabbing, Seles says, "I've put the whole thing in a box. If I need to open it, I will, but I hope...
Timothy Leary is not going gentle into the good night; he's going downright cheerfully. The puckish former Harvard psychologist and lsd fan has inoperable prostate cancer and told the L.A. Times he was thrilled when he found out: "How you die is the most important thing you ever do. I've been waiting for this for years...