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Since its publication last September, The One Minute Manager (Morrow; 111 pages; $15) has sold more than half a million copies. This week it is No. 3 on the New York Times bestseller list. The thin volume by Management Consultant Kenneth Blanchard and Psychologist Spencer Johnson sets forth the three secrets that they claim can transform executives into models of efficiency and their employees into grinning self-starters. The formulas for success: One Minute Goals, One Minute Praisings and One Minute Reprimands...
...many who start out with wide interests become narrowly focused in their fight to get into med school. Students blame the problem on admissions committees, which emphasize grades and test scores over the personal attributes and interests that may make an individual a superior doctor. Notes Utah University Psychologist Calvin Taylor: "Based on test scores, you cannot predict who is going to be the most knowledgeable physician ten years later." Perhaps, says Thomas, "there should be an admissions quota for the solid citizens who rank in the middle of their class...
Still, no animal species is likely to prove more intelligent than Homo sapiens. However, as Psychologist Colin Beer of Rutgers University puts it, "Human intelligence has made us dominant, but has also brought us great suffering. The balance sheet of the costs and benefits of intelligence has yet to be tallied...
What we are remembering this weekend is a controversy in the history of Harvard which filled the pages of The Crimson and preoccupied the national news media for months 20 years ago Drs. Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert, both psychologist and members of the Harvard. Faculty, had discovered psilocybin, a consciousness altering substance in the "magic mushroom," and were busy persuading graduates and un dergraduates to take it--in some in stances as part of a course for credit They arranged sessions--called "drug trips" by their opposition--for groups as diverse as prisoners in the Concord Reformatory and worshippers...
...changes in values and culminated in student riots and rebellion all over the country Daniel Yankelovich using survey data has make the most sense of these changes for me in his book, New Rules Searching for Self-fulfillment in a World Turned Upside Down. He points out that many psychologists like Carl Rogers had been arguing for a long time that people were bundles of "needs" that had to be satisfied or expressed to insure personal growth and satisfaction. Another psychologist, Abraham Maslow, had developed a persuasive case for the fact that higher needs could be fulfilled only after basic...