Word: psychologist
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Joshua Bloodworth '97, treasurer of the BSA, questioned the credentials of the co-authors. He said Murray is a writer and Herrnstein was a psychologist and "neither is seriously engaged in the biological sciences...
...Psychologists warn that the sudden media immersion could cause serious disruptions for the townspeople, from reducing family time together to shortening attention spans. Robert Kubey, a psychologist and associate professor of communication at Rutgers University, says people who aren't used to so many TV choices could have a tougher time controlling their viewing. "TV is an incredibly seductive element," he says. "I defy someone to show me a place it was introduced and failed...
Yesterday afternoon, about 30 people who knew Wambold met in University Hall for an hour. A trauma psychologist spoke to them, said one student who attended...
...bang. To give credence to such ideas -- even when doing so with loud sighs of alas! -- is to resume some of the most poisonous battles of the late 1960s and '70s, when the sometimes cranky outer limits of the IQ debate were personified by Arthur Jensen, the Berkeley psychologist who stressed the link between race, genes and IQ, and William Shockley, who proposed paying people with low IQs to be sterilized. Murray says the reaction against them shut off a necessary discussion. "The country has for a long time been in almost hysterical denial that genes can play any role...
...Brien's suggestion that people enter politics in search of the love they've never had seems reductive. And he remains much better at exploring mystery than at explaining it ("There is no end, happy or otherwise; nothing is fixed, nothing is solved"). Yet if he is no psychologist, he is a masterly evoker of shadowy psychological states. And what remains in the mind from this book is an unsparing depiction of the moral and emotional nightmares of Vietnam, made more unsparing by O'Brien's rigorous refusal to write them off as the craziness of the moment. "This...