Word: psychologist
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...guarantee of eternal life. In Burma, where Karen rebels have been fighting for independence for 41 years, combat has become the family business. Northern Ireland is not officially at war, but a state of siege between two religions has made violence the expected. As Alexander Lyons, a Belfast psychologist, dryly says, "It's the children who don't throw stones that are abnormal...
People will continue to err when predicting the future if only because of the human tendency to fit new events into familiar categories. In a celebrated 1950s experiment, psychologist Jerome Bruner showed that ordinary people would "see" a red ace of spades as a regular black one if it was salted into an otherwise normal deck. The Smithsonian exhibit demonstrates that inventors are fooled in the same...
...best-selling book, Out of the Shadows. Said Carnes: "What we're talking about is a loss of control and willingness to risk any kind of consequence for a pleasure that gets you so hooked you cannot stop." But other experts dismissed that argument. Contended University of Minnesota psychologist Eli Coleman, who believes compulsive sexual behaviors are types of anxiety-based disorders: "It's not an addiction. There's no substance involved. You can use it as a metaphor, but it's oversimplifying a complex phenomenon, and that could be dangerous...
Others argue that solid evidence is accumulating in support of the addiction hypothesis. Psychologist Harvey Milkman and chemist Stanley Sunderwirth, authors of the book Craving for Ecstasy: The Consciousness and Chemistry of Escape, point out that sexual arousal triggers an increase in the release of certain neurotransmitters in the brain in much the same way that the taking of mood-altering drugs does. It is possible that sex addicts try to get the high that results from those chemicals...
...schools, for example, showed that black males accounted for 80% of the expulsions, 65% of the suspensions and 58% of the nonpromotions, even though they made up just 43% of the students. "Black boys are viewed by their teachers as hyperactive and aggressive," says Jewelle Taylor Gibbs, a clinical psychologist at the University of California, Berkeley. "Very early on, they get labeled...