Word: psychologist
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...actually braved the alien territories of the Wild West traveled in groups of families, not alone. Through the agrarian era into the modern one, Americans have continued to regard the nurturing of families as a personal issue rather than a public concern. "We have this notion," says research psychologist Arlene Skolnick of the University of California, Berkeley, "that a family is inadequate if it is not self-sufficient...
Kotter said, "The material on which it isbased--and I'm not a social psychologist--issupposed to be respected research...To myknowledge, there's nothing inaccurate in those twopages [of the memo...
...inner cities, where weapons are treated like household appliances, the lessons in cruelty usually start at home. Psychologist Charles Patrick Ewing, author of Kids Who Kill, has found that many young people committing seemingly motiveless killings were themselves sexually or physically abused. "To brutalize another human being, a youngster has to have been brutalized himself," he says. Ewing finds that teenage murderers often don't recall, or won't admit, that they were once victims. "A street tough would rather go to the gas chamber than admit to having been beaten or sodomized by a male relative...
Many parents think their babies are geniuses. Now a report in Nature argues -- not altogether convincingly -- that tots can actually add and subtract at five months. After showing objects to infants, a psychologist hid the objects with a screen; she then reached behind the screen to add or remove one. But she added or subtracted objects surreptitiously as well. When the screen was lifted, the infants stared longer at a wrong number of objects than they did when the result was correct. Conclusion: they were doing a double take. Ah, science...
Viewers' familiarity with the gore genre has never bothered Brian De Palma. He has been considered a Hitchcock groupie for so long that, by now, the slur seems like a badge. The plot of Raising Cain -- about a child psychologist (John Lithgow) still under the spell of his mad-scientist father and an evil twin named Cain -- swipes from Psycho and Michael Powell's sicko classic Peeping Tom. What's fun here is that De Palma has rung cunning changes on Hitchcockian twists. What if the car that Norman Bates watched sink into the swamp had a woman inside, clawing...