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...part, women are pretty supportive of one another." Besides, says Smith, what's considered bitchy in a woman is seen as assertive in a man. "If you could remove the gender, I'm not sure you would come to the same conclusion by observing the same behavior," she says. Psychologist Dorothy Cantor, the author of Women in Power: The Secrets of Leadership, agrees. "Women don't all get along with each other any more than men all get along with each other. There are so many other factors besides our gender that influence how we deal with each other...
...book is the work of three formidable writers. Michael Thompson, a clinical psychologist, is co-author of the best-selling Raising Cain; Catherine O'Neill Grace is a former psychology columnist for the Washington Post; and Lawrence Cohen is a psychologist and the author of Playful Parenting. Their collaboration occasionally belabors points that most moms and dads already know. For example: "Children...silently sort themselves into popular, accepted and rejected categories." But it includes plenty of insights and case studies so that parents will come away with ideas they can use. A few key points...
Educators are finding that labyrinths have benefits for children too. "Kids, like adults, are leading very frantic lives," says Marge McCarthy, 71, a retired school psychologist who has consulted on the building of labyrinths in seven schools in Santa Fe, N.M., in the past two years. She recalls an eight-year-old writing that when he walked, he felt "relaxed, small, kind of in and not out." Another liked having a "big circle around me" while he was in that place kids love to be--the center...
Nowadays every psychology student is taught that James and Piaget were wrong. From their earliest months, in fact, children interpret the world as a real and predictable place. It's the parents of an infant who experience the world as a blooming, buzzing confusion, says one psychologist. This new understanding is largely the legacy of Harvard psychologist Elizabeth Spelke...
...wide range of fields. Although few of these areas are as controversial as stem-cell research, they are all just as important to the way we live our daily lives. Among them: Lonnie Thompson, a climatologist who scales mountaintops to better understand global warming; Elizabeth Spelke, a developmental psychologist who has shown that babies are smarter than we thought...