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...great blooming, buzzing confusion." That's how William James, writing more than a century ago, described the inner world of infants. Babies, unaware of the objects and people outside their bodies, see a kaleidoscope of shimmering pixels, he supposed. The famous Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget agreed: not until they are two years old do children fully appreciate that the world contains things that behave in predictable ways...
Spelke left MIT to join Harvard’s psychology department just last month, saying that Harvard offered unique opportunities including working with former New York University psychologist Susan Carey who also joined the faculty this summer as a psychology professor...
...September, Harvard psychologist Dan Kindlon, co-author of the best-selling 1999 book Raising Cain, will publish Too Much of a Good Thing: Raising Children of Character in an Indulgent Age, in which he warns parents against spoiling their children either materially or emotionally, against trying to make kids' lives perfect. Using the body's immune system as a metaphor, Kindlon argues, "The body cannot learn to adapt to stress unless it experiences it. Indulged children are often less able to cope with stress because their parents have created an atmosphere where their whims are indulged, where they have always...
...facts, of course, don?t bear out the idea of equal pay for equal work. According to data provided by the AFL-CIO Working Women?s Department, jobs across the socioeconomic board are subject to male-female disparities: The average female lawyer, architect, psychologist, waiter and lab technician all generally makes less than her male colleagues. Even allowing for factors like time worked and previous jobs held, the study shows that between 11 and 40 percent of male/female wage differences remain unexplained...
WEDDED STRESS Marital strife can harm your health, and for years it was thought that men suffered more ill effects because of their heightened physiological response during conflict. Not so, according to recent studies cited by psychologist Scott Stanley, co-author of the newly revised book Fighting for Your Marriage. Women seem to bear the brunt of it, says Stanley, because they tend to feel more responsible for the outcome of the marriage and yet cannot single-handedly effect change...