Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...arrest on April 26 of Masami Tsuchiya, 30, a doctoral student in organic chemistry who police said led the effort to make sarin. Charged initially with the minor crime of helping other Aum members evade arrest, he was extensively questioned about the sarin attack. In consultation with a psychologist, police found they were able to break Tsuchiya quickly, despite his reputation as a hard-core Aum member. Shoko Egawa, an expert on the cult, offered an explanation: "The best-educated members were really prized by Asahara and did not go through the same indoctrination that the others did. Once someone...
Though producers treat these shows as mere entertainment, many viewers do not. A study involving 187 students conducted by communication professor Glenn Sparks of Purdue University found that exposure to such programs heightened belief in the paranormal. And when that exposure is constant, says University of Oregon psychologist Ray Hyman, each new repetition of a paranormal tale, even when related with a skeptical tone, "makes it more and more believable." Scientists are worried, too, that the proliferation of paranormal TV is contributing to the public's scientific illiteracy, which they regard as a national liability in a high-tech...
Kosslyn and Rosenthal said the department hascurrently offered someone a tenured position as asocial psychologist and was waiting to hear fromthat person, whom they declined to identify...
...initial concerns may be quite genuine and shared by many other citizens. "There is almost always a kernel of truth to the false beliefs that these groups hold," says Dennis Johnson, a clinical psychologist and head of Behavior Analysts & Consultants, in Stuart, Florida. "Perhaps [it is] a piece of legislation they can point to and say, 'Here, look. Here's our justification.'" But then they look beyond that trigger and see a world that is painful, malevolent and out to get them...
...sense, the fact that 13 jurors (including the white woman and black man alleged to have been involved in a racial incident) joined the protest is heartening evidence that the group is bonding, as most juries do, and can agree on a course of action. But, cautions psychologist Hans, it does not bode well that they are "bonding against the court...