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Hilary Hanafin, a clinical psychologist with the Center for Surrogate Parenting and Egg Donation, commented on the process on the American Radio Network’s “Decision to Donate” series. She notes: “Being an egg donor is a big decision. It’s not like being a blood donor, and a 21- or 19-year-old undergraduate probably doesn’t have the capacity to understand what she’s getting into...
Britain's Financial Times once described Steven Pinker as "a handsome man" with a hairstyle that "works equally well for Led Zeppelin front man Robert Plant." But even if the Harvard psychologist didn't look like a rock star, he would still play to packed houses on the lecture circuit. He has something rare among top-tier scholars, an ability to convey complex ideas with clarity, flair and wit. That's one reason his books--most recently, The Blank Slate--make best-seller lists even as they make waves in academia. The other reason is those waves in academia. Pinker...
Every half-century, it seems, an eminent Harvard psychologist crystallizes an intellectual era. Near the end of the 19th century, William James, writing in Darwin's wake, stressed how naturally functional the mind is. In the mid--20th century, after a pendulum swing, B.F. Skinner depicted the mind as a blank slate. Now the pendulum is swinging again. Harvard, which lured Pinker from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology last year, seems poised to keep its tradition alive. --BY ROBERT WRIGHT, author of Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny
...Prince is now a man of 70. His early professional years were devoted to philosophy and to the practice of medicine. He made important research in obscure nervous diseases before he became known as a psychologist, and is perhaps most famous for his researches in problems of multiple personality. His theories of the subconscious were well known among psychologists long before Freud's had become a familiar name in this country. Dr. Prince has been guest professor in many American universities. In Oxford and Cambridge, Edinburgh and London he has lectured on phases of abnormal psychology...
...brain tricks. If you need to persuade a lazy worker to start carrying his load or to convince a rival company that a merger makes sense, draw up a psychological plan. In Changing Minds: The Art and Science of Changing Our Own and Other People's Minds, Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner says leaders who propose a change of thinking, and back their suggestion with research and resources, are more likely to succeed than those who rely on the rhetoric of leadership alone. Gardner uses British Petroleum as a prime example: CEO John Browne turned the oil giant around by challenging...