Word: psychologistic
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Pharr said that Radcliffe’s own researchers could inform the University’s emerging initiative. She cited as one example Cabot Professor of Social Ethics Mahzarin Banaji, a psychologist who has studied gender disparities in attitudes toward mathematics. In online tests that ask subjects to categorize various pictures and words, Banaji has found that females associate “math” with unpleasant stimuli much more readily than males...
...everyone supported the report’s findings. University of Alaska psychologist Judith S. Kleinfeld compiled her own study, in which she described the MIT report as a “political manifesto masquerading as science.” And The Wall Street Journal editorial page called it “junk science...
...sociologists, psychologists, economists and others who study this age group have many names for this new phase of life--"youthhood," "adultescence"--and they call people in their 20s "kidults" and "boomerang kids," none of which have quite stuck. Terri Apter, a psychologist at the University of Cambridge in England and the author of The Myth of Maturity, calls them "thresholders...
Jeffrey Arnett, a developmental psychologist??at??the???? University of Maryland, favors "emerging adulthood" to describe this new demographic group, and the term is the title of his new book on the subject. His theme is that the twixters are misunderstood. It's too easy to write them off as overgrown children, he argues. Rather, he suggests, they're doing important work to get themselves ready for adulthood. "This is the one time of their lives when they're not responsible for anyone else or to anyone else," Arnett says. "So they have this wonderful freedom to really focus on their...
...Roberto is “always nervous about hospitals getting a hold of my clients,” she said. “If I’m thinking maybe I can get it from first to third under diminished capacity, I get a psychologist to say, ‘Yes, he’s bipolar, and it affects his cognition...