Word: psychologist
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...postwar Liverpool. Grant is assured, residing inside this rotter as if he'd been waiting to play the role all his life. But it is the other, lesser performance in "Nine Months" that showcases Grant in the role Hollywood wants: Movie Star. The film, which tracks a child psychologist who hates children and his wife from pregnancy through delivery, has a cleverness that is as irresistible as it is predictable. Both films, says Corliss, should make the public forget all about Grant's misadventures. "The odds are that moviegoers will contribute to the Hugh Grant Defense Fund one movie ticket...
...Harry Groener) with a book of her puzzling dreams. Finding their interpretation intractable, he consults a renowned professor (Jan Rubes), who suggests that the dreams "foretell the demise of the dreamer." Though all the characters are fictional, the plot springs from a case study of Carl Jung's; the psychologist found corroboration for his theory of the "collective unconscious" in a 10-year-old whose dreams seemingly divined her own death...
Parents need as much guidance as their kids do. Says UCLA psychologist Patricia Marks Greenfield: "Parents tend to opt out after Sesame Street. They don't research what the good programs are." Notes Daniel Anderson, a professor of psychology at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst: "For children, television is a window to the world. Parents should control, limit and regulate television exactly as much as they control, limit and regulate other things the child does-like taking lessons, like eating, like being outside." Indeed, too many parents are like the Man in the Yellow Hat in Margret and Hans...
...success." He might have a receptive audience in Winnetka, Illinois, where members of the Winnetka Alliance for Early Childhood became so concerned over the pervasive negative influence of the Power Rangers that they organized a TV Tune-Out week last winter. Says Winnetka developmental psychologist Jeanne Beckman: "If parents would sit down and watch that program from beginning to end, they would be shocked at what they...
Later these hormones play a housekeeping role in the growth and maintenance of brain cells in both sexes. (In boys some testosterone is converted to estrogen in the brain.) When estrogen is in short supply, memory and thought processes can suffer. Psychologist Barbara Sherwin at Montreal's McGill University has studied the effects of estrogen therapy on women who have had their ovaries removed and thus produce very little estrogen of their own. She found that women who were given injections of estrogen were better at learning and recalling pairs of words than those given a placebo. The effect...