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Henry Wechsler, a social psychologist and lecturer at the Harvard School of Public Health and a national expert on collegiate drinking, has argued that the benefits of the keg restriction outweigh the drawbacks...
...tell the media about its existence. "There is often an indignation on the part of serial killers at news reports about them that are inaccurate, so they start giving little hints about who they really are, what they have done," says Jamie Greene, a clinical and forensic psychologist. "They want recognition...
...analogies, however, may be the case of Thomas Lee Dillon. Convicted of killing five Ohio men between 1989 and 1992, Dillon drove around shooting complete strangers from afar with high-powered rifles. He saw himself as an extremely powerful person during these expeditions. And he would later tell forensic psychologist Jeffrey Smalldon that he intentionally picked random victims located across multiple jurisdictions in order to make it harder for police to find...
...field of economics, theoretical models are predicated on people behaving rationally. Daniel Kahneman proved otherwise, perhaps because he is not an economist. A professor at Princeton University, Kahneman, 65, is a cognitive psychologist. In his studies he has shown that people are not particularly wise about assessing probability. His work, he has said, was inspired by such curiosities as finding that when polled, subjects said they would travel 20 minutes to save $5 on a $15 calculator but not spend the same time to save $5 on a $125 jacket. Kahneman won the prize, according to the committee, for "having...
McDonald cultivated an intimate atmosphere at PBHA. Some staff members and students even referred to him as their part-time psychologist or mentor...