Word: psychologist
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Years ago, the Princeton psychologist Hadley Cantril posited that social panics occur when large groups can't discern reliable sources of advice from unreliable ones. The jumbled frenzy of 24/7 information access may be making our current panic worse. It's tempting to check your investments every few minutes. But having more information, in this case, isn't necessarily better. Panic attacks end when you take a deep breath, and a step back...
John D. Gartner chose wisely. It's hard to think of someone whose life has provided more fodder for a psychological biography than former President Bill Clinton. Gartner, a psychologist at Johns Hopkins University, and author of In Search of Bill Clinton talks to TIME about Clinton's manic tendencies, his power over crowds, and why the Monica affair was a true love story...
...practice "psycho journalism" with this book. What's the difference between that and just a plain old biography?Psychologists have never done investigative journalism when they've written these biographies. Their books are always based on records or things they could research in a library. I actually went to Arkansas and Ireland and Africa and really chased down the story of who this guy is by interviewing lots of people-4,000 pages of interviews. I really wanted to take my skills as a psychologist but go out and actually get original material...
...Aren't you just letting him off the hook? You ask the question, "What would most men do if they were irresistible and could have sex with any women they wanted?" Isn't that just an excuse?As a psychologist, my tendency is to be empathic. I'm used to making connections with people. That might be one way in which a biography by a psychologist might be a little different, because we don't feel that we're giving away the store if we allow ourselves to connect to a person we're trying to understand...
There are lots of easy answers: fashion, peer pressure, vanity. There are less obvious ones too. To narrow the height difference between men and women, perhaps? Or because, as evolutionary psychologist Martin Tovee of Britain's Newcastle University surmises, girls' legs grow only during childhood, so long legs communicate a healthy youth and good breeding potential...