Word: psychologistic
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...handling such cases seem to have effectively reduced scandal and nourished a sense of enfranchisement. "This board helps the church as well as the people who are directly involved," says Louverne Williams, a retired schoolteacher who serves on a review board in Minneapolis-St. Paul, along with a psychologist, a lawyer, a law-enforcement expert and other lay members and clergy. "It is my ministry." It has heard about 15 abuse cases since its founding in 1995; in the two cases with child victims, the board recommended the priests be defrocked. If the charter is adopted in Dallas next week...
...Ernie Els. But he was struck by lightning while playing in South Africa, leading to health problems. He turned pro in 1990 but made little impression on the European Tour until he broke his arm skiing in 1999. He used the enforced two-month layoff to consult Belgian sports psychologist Jos Vanstiphout. Since then there has been no looking back. His U.S. Open win was followed by victories in the Scottish and Madrid Opens, and he teamed up with Els to win the EMC2 World Cup in Japan over the U.S. pairing of David Duval and Tiger Woods...
...everyone agrees that the incidence of fibbing is up, nobody agrees why. Employers find that applicants tend to lie more when the economy turns south and jobs grow scarce. The real predictor of who will stretch the truth, however, is not underlying work circumstances but underlying personality. According to psychologist Robin Inwald, head of New York City-based Hilson Research, which sells psychological testing to corporations, almost all job applicants score high on what is known as the guardedness scale--the degree to which they are determined to make a good impression on a potential employer...
Through squash, Mead met legendary Harvard squash and tennis coach Jack Barnaby ’32, whom Mead calls “foremost a psychologist and philosopher, then athlete...
...around work, an insult or betrayal by a supervisor or coworker can be emotionally searing. If one feels ostracized from a workplace that has been the center of one's life, then friendships, community, personal identity, and even the very meaning of life, may suddenly rupture." Philipson, a clinical psychologist whose practice is devoted to issues of over-involvement in the workplace, has counseled almost 200 patients regarding this issue...