Word: psychologistic
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...He’s just flat-out wrong when he argues in favor of genetic differences,” said Banaji. “As a psychologist who studies these issues as opposed to someone who merely has opinions, I would say that President Summers has not read the literature...
...arrived in 1999. She slashed them into four key groups. She not only rationalized operations but also reoriented them to focus on customers instead of HP's engineers. "The board was looking to revitalize HP, and they saw Carly as a change agent," says Richard Hagberg, a California industrial psychologist who gave Fiorina the personality test credited with helping her win the HP job. "They saw her as a visionary evangelist who could oversee the creation of a new vision, [who] was willing to challenge some sacred cows. And they got that...
...Niro’s caliber. It has clearly been good training playing against all those hunky-leading man types (Denzel Washington, Sean Penn, and soon Tom Cruise). De Niro, playing against the Travis Bickle-type that first catapulted him to fame, is very convincing as David, a soft-spoken psychologist...
...estimate of an officer who frequently visited Abu Ghraib and is a psychologist, some 5% of the prisoners suffered from mental illness. Yet, according to Dr. David Auch, commander of the reserve company supporting medical operations at the prison in 2003, for long periods there was no one to treat mental-health problems among the inmates, no doctor qualified to prescribe antipsychotic drugs and other medications that could have calmed mentally ill detainees and perhaps diminished the guards' use of physical restraints. Often the only psychiatrists or psychologists on site were part of so-called behavioral-science consultation teams...
...most cases none of the above, says psychologist Marjorie Taylor of the University of Oregon, who with her colleague Stephanie Carlson at the University of Washington has conducted a study of kids and their fictional companions. Not only are such creations common--65% of children up to age 7 played with at least one imaginary friend at some point in their lives, according to a paper Taylor and Carlson published in Developmental Psychology late last year--but they may give children who dream them up a developmental advantage...