Word: psychologist
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...many singles seem to crave the human touch. "People like to think matchmakers are in it not just for money but because they have a sixth sense," says Darren Star, creator of Miss Match. "A matchmaker is part psychologist, part psychic...
Keller has found a typically idiosyncratic solution to the management problem. He has set up an eclectic six-member advisory council to mentor him on the expansion of his business: two bankers, an attorney, a restaurant consultant, an accountant and a psychologist. (Chefs are a little crazy, as anyone in the restaurant business will tell you.) He has increased staff training to reassure himself that the pursuit of perfection will be maintained even when he is not in the kitchen. And, as insurance, he is installing a live video link between the kitchens of the French Laundry...
...change has not been easy for Keller, a legendary control freak. Team member Kristen Armstrong, a psychologist and executive coach, worked on Keller's behavior. Says he: "I am a chef. I am used to controlling. I didn't like delegating. But over the past two years she has helped me a lot with that." But even with Armstrong's coaching, Keller still yearns to stay hands...
Club member Lee Kyser, 56, says she doesn't have a "gay agenda." Rather, the psychologist maintains, she just wants her same-sex partner to be able to take their adopted twins, age 2, to swimming lessons as a spouse, enjoying the same privileges accorded all members' spouses. Another gay club member, Randy New, 49, wants spousal status for his partner too. The club is fighting them, arguing that if it grants those rights it would have to provide them to unmarried heterosexual couples as well, which it won't do. The city has vowed to enforce an ordinance passed...
...discovered this in a curious way. Before our subjects entered the brain scanner, we asked each to fill out several questionnaires, including a survey designed by psychologist Elaine Hatfield and sociologist Susan Sprecher called the Passionate Love Scale (see box). We wanted to compare the brain activity of each subject to what that subject reported on a questionnaire. We found a positive correlation: those who scored higher on the Passionate Love Scale also showed more activity in a specific region of the caudate...