Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Americans deeply detest Big Oil? After all, observes Stegemeier, "No one seems too concerned when orange juice goes up after a freeze. Society says everyone should have a free market, except the oil industry." Harvard Medical School psychologist Steven Berglas, who works with corporations that suffer from image problems, concurs. "People resent powerful entities that control necessities like oil," he explains. "We can actually gain psychological control by hating them." Berglas also suspects that some civilians deflect their anti-Iraq feelings toward Big Oil, a more accessible target. "You and I are not flying F-15s," he says...
...blip on the ! roster of social ills. Today gambling counselors say an average of 7% of their case loads involve teenagers. New studies indicate that teenage vulnerability to compulsive gambling hits every economic stratum and ethnic group. After surveying 2,700 high school students in four states, California psychologist Durand Jacobs concluded that students are 2 1/2 times as likely as adults to become problem gamblers. In another study, Henry Lesieur, a sociologist at St. John's University in New York, found eight times as many gambling addicts among college students as among adults...
...KEYNOTE SPEECH of the first-ever AWARE Week in 1989, Colgate psychologist John Dovidio told the gathered penitents that 15 percent of Americans are overtly racist, while the remaining 85 percent are racists and don't realize it. The message was clear: AWARE Week intends to dig out that hidden fiber of racism and hang it out for view, thus comforting the aggrieved and assuaging the consciences of the offenders. This week's agenda is loaded with the same stuff: a workshop on "Addressing Issues of Personal Racism," a panel discussion on "Multiculturalism in the Ivory Tower...
...stoic view. "I'm not frightened anymore. Once I get the mask on, I spend the rest of the time in our sealed room playing Nintendo," says Yoni Radzinski, 10, of Herzliya, a town just northeast of Tel Aviv. "By and large, Israeli kids are coping very well," says psychologist Robert Asch of the Ministry of Education. He predicts that tensions and boredom, a growing problem, will ease still further once children begin returning to school. But a residue of fear and bad dreams is likely to remain even after the gulf war ends...
...gulf. She'd been having trouble concentrating at work. But when she felt herself losing control, overwhelmed by a rising sense of panic, she dialed the toll-free hot line provided by her company for employees in distress. A counselor on the other end referred her to a local psychologist for help...