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Most amusing, however, is the confident analysis of Harvard social psychologist Henry Weschler, a lecturer at the Harvard School of Public Health. His take on the policy is: “While a no keg policy is certainly not going to stop all drinking, it will slow down the amount of alcohol consumed.” Dr. Hank, I beg to differ. It doesn’t take a social psychologist to know that banning one method of alcohol consumption does not prevent students from turning to other sources for their buzz. Harvard students are, if nothing else, resourceful when...
Henry Weschler, a social psychologist and lecturer at the Harvard School of Public Health, and one of the country’s foremost experts on collegiate drinking, echoed Lewis’ concern for drinking at sporting events...
...human brain in its early years is to make sense of mathematical principles from objects found in the natural world," says Jane M. Healy, an educational psychologist and author of Failure to Connect: How Computers Affect Our Children's Mind--and What We Can Do About It. This philosophy--championed most famously by the Swiss developmental psychologist Jean Piaget--explains the near ubiquity of counting rods and beads, known in academic circles as manipulatives, in most grade-school classrooms. As kids approach adolescence, however, they may be ready for slightly more abstract methods of learning, and computers may offer just...
...below was found to be the world's funniest. But I must have missed that, too. Some 65% of those polled allegedly rated this joke "very funny" or "funny." I couldn't rouse a chuckle. A little worried that I might be a humorless freak, I decided to call psychologist Richard Wiseman. He had to be able to help: he led the research team that, after a grueling year of joke collecting, online surveying and number crunching - 2 million ratings from people in 70 countries - uncovered this alleged gem along with all kinds of impressive scientific data about what makes...
Gomes submitted to the court a letter from Frank McNamara, a staff psychologist at the Bureau of Study Counsel who began treating Gomes in Nov. 1998 when he was a first-year...