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...many as 700 school districts across the country have instituted programs that aim to nourish students' souls as well as their minds. And while the best teachers have long taught kids to behave and play fair, they now have science on their side. In 1995 psychologist and New York Times science writer Daniel Goleman published Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ, which contends that children's ability to recognize their own emotions, empathize with peers and deal with crises--their "emotional quotient," or EQ--influences their life chances as much as native intelligence. The book...
...Psychologist Carol A. Gilligan has been named the first Patricia Albjerg Graham professor of the gender studies. The chair is named for Graham, who served as the GSE dean from...
...issue that looked less mean than attacking unwed moms. Everyone is against divorce in the abstract, but in the concrete, they understand why particular people they know had to have a divorce." "These think tanks know how to tap into people's anxieties," says Arlene Skolnick, a research psychologist at the University of California, Berkeley. "The gap between the way we'd like families to be and the way they are creates a constant toothache that can be poked...
...plot gets quite convoluted, the basic premise of the movie is simple: the paranoid cab driver, Jerry, finally hits home with one of the many conspiracy theories he publishes in his newsletter titled, of course, "Conspiracy Theory." He is being trailed by an insidiously evil, Harvard-grad CIA psychologist, Dr. Jonas (Patrick Stewart), who wants to find Jerry and force him to admit what he doesn't exactly know he knows...
DIED. STANLEY SCHACHTER, 75, social psychologist who found consequence in the quotidian; of colon cancer; in East Hampton, N.Y. Among his seemingly obvious notions: obese people overeat past the point of hunger; academics say "uhm" to buy time; individuals influence the stock market. He modestly called one of his theories "bubba psychology...