Word: psychologist
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...that athletes participated in about a third of 862 sexual attacks on campus. Another national study of 24 gang sexual assaults at colleges found that most involved fraternity brothers or members of athletic teams, primarily the football and basketball squads. "If you have an athletic fraternity, watch out," warns psychologist Bernice Sandler of the Association of American Colleges...
...play together but also often eat and live together. And personal integrity is frequently a weak match for group loyalty. In a mob, especially one fueled by alcohol or drugs, individuals may not blanch at joining in a gang rape. "They will do anything to please each other," observes psychologist Sandler. "They are raping for each other. The woman is incidental." And, she adds, "they don't think of it as rape even when the victim is unconscious. Rape is something done by one man in a dark alley...
Edmund Valentine White III was born 50 years ago in Cincinnati to a father who was a chemical engineer and a mother who was a psychologist for retarded children. He is the seventh Valentine in the White descent. His older sister Margaret Fleming, a psychotherapist, recalls that even as a small boy her brother was different: "Like most kids I was a conformist, but not Ed. I didn't understand him then and probably tortured him a lot . . . Today he's my hero. When my parents divorced, he was only seven, and he took it very hard. He became...
Much the same could be said about Miller's second novel, Family Pictures. The message is that women with autistic children have been made to bear the burden and the guilt for the misfortune. Appropriately, the setting is Chicago, home of the late psychologist Bruno Bettelheim, whose judgmental views on the causes of autism hang over the Eberhardt family. Underscoring the theme is David Eberhardt, an orthodox Freudian psychiatrist. Mother Lainey navigates with less theory and more emotion -- no small undertaking with six children, including the autistic Randall...
...angers many artificial-intelligence researchers. M.I.T.'s Marvin Minsky, one of the field's pioneers, is downright hostile. Says he: "Penrose is O.K. when he talks about mathematics, but most of his evidence argues against his conclusions. As far as I can tell, he is just plain wrong." Stanford psychologist and AI researcher David Rumelhart is somewhat milder: "He defines intelligence too narrowly by saying it depends on consciousness...