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...Richard Atkinson, cognitive psychologist, testing expert and, since 1995, president of the University of California, the SAT has always been a mystery. What, exactly, does it measure? The original exam, developed in the 1920s, was designed to predict how well students would do in college. The Educational Testing Service, which develops the test, insists it still does. But Atkinson, 71, is worried about the growing number of parents pouring thousands of dollars into SAT-prep programs (last year an estimated 150,000 students paid more than $100 million for coaching) and even shopping around for psychologists to certify that their...
Anthony Wolf, a Boston psychologist and author of The Secret of Parenting, says parents often fall into a trap: their children behave badly, and they resort to punishing out of anger, frustration or the lack of an alternative idea. Wolf recommends that parents be clear about their expectations, quickly deal with their children's mistakes and misdeeds, make the consequence fit the action and disengage. If a child knowingly rides her bike beyond the boundaries, for instance, parents should explain what she did wrong and then take the bike away until they feel she's ready to be responsible...
...seven, but also the brains behind the entire operation--smart enough to begin plotting the escape six months in advance and smart enough to ingratiate himself and his trusted companions into the right work duty on the right day. "Guards are creatures of habit," says Richard Coons, the forensic psychologist who evaluated Rivas during his 1994 trial for kidnapping and robbery. With someone like Rivas, who is "able to bide his time and watch," such habits proved disastrous...
...book is already on Amazon's Top 10. Surrendered Wives circles have sprouted in cities like Los Angeles and Chicago. The book has understandably provoked strong reactions. Popular therapist and author John Gray praises it, on the front cover, as a "practical and valuable tool." But UCLA psychologist Andrew Christensen moans, "It's destructive. It's a throwback, and it doesn't protect women...
...takes is a point and a click to log on to theSpark.com, where one finds the most popular personality test on the web. Part fortune-teller, part pop-psychologist, theSpark.com's Personality Test is loosely based on the more scientifically-minded Myers-Briggs model, and follows the same format. Using four basic scales with opposite poles--extraversion/introversion, dominance/submissiveness, thinking/feeling and judging/perceiving--the test places each individual into one of 16 "personality" categories based on their responses to a series of questions...