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While not prescribing the classes, noted psychologist John Gottman in his book Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child: The Heart of Parenting encourages such "emotion coaching" because, his research shows, children who learn socially appropriate ways to solve problems and handle life's upsets are physically healthier and more attentive, have more empathy and more friends, and perform better in school. Lilly Streider, 9, who attends Kimberly Goddard's Proper Protocol classes in St. Petersburg, Fla., would agree. "I raise my hand [in school] now," says Streider. "And when I go to the board, I'm not as afraid...
Some 70 miles up the East Coast in New Haven, Conn., psychologist Kelly Brownell pulls out a full-page advertisement he has torn from the Wall Street Journal and marvels over the message. The ad displays a new snack-food product from Frito-Lay called Munchies Kids Mix, packaged, once again, in that child-friendly chartreuse hue. It reads, "Mom and Dad, you'll feel great about offering it to your kids because Munchies Kids Mix is a good source of 8 essential vitamins and minerals, has 0 grams trans fat and meets nutritional guidelines established by [Texas fitness expert...
...than in dictatorships, for here public monitoring was greater. Dictators like Saddam Hussein didn?t use them much. Indeed, they may have needed to leave scarred bodies in every public square as evidence of their power. That very lack of scarring in some ways is even worse. A UN psychologist who works with victims of stealth torture observes that the feelings of shame, remorse and guilt ?would not have been experienced had the subjects been physically scarred.? Physical scars can be shown without shame; they win sympathy and recognition from families and communities. But the photographs at Abu Ghraib...
...Psychologists who have studied torture and prisoner abuse say it is remarkably easy for people to lapse into sadistic behavior when they have complete power over other human beings, especially if they feel the behavior has been sanctioned by an authority figure. In a classic series of studies conducted at Yale in the 1960s, psychologist Stanley Milgram showed that psychologically healthy volunteers did not hesitate to administer what they thought were electric shocks to another human being when instructed to do so by a researcher. Two-thirds followed instructions and kept raising the voltage--right up to levels marked DANGER...
...then assumed a post as a psychologist at State Hospital in Northampton, Mass. before enrolling in a joint M.D./Ph.D. program at the University of Connecticut and Yale Medical School, where he also became a fellow at the Yale Department of Psychiatry’s Child Studies Center...