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...sure, mental-health professionals say that anger-management classes can work, that making mature decisions is a skill that can be taught. But to be effective, the courses must involve committed students over a long period. Psychologist Eleanor Cole, an expert on anger management for the American Psychological Association, says her clients typically need about a year to overcome their anger issues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Classroom for Hotheads | 4/10/2000 | See Source »

Does having a short index finger mean you're gay? A new study comparing index and ring-finger lengths says this ratio indicates how much testosterone people were exposed to in the womb, which may influence sexual orientation. Dr. Marc Breedlove, the aptly named Berkeley psychologist who's searching for the anatomical basis of sexual preference, reports that lesbians tend to have substantially shorter index fingers, a trait more common among men than women. Really short index fingers on men don't mean they're gay or straight, the study says; it means they probably have lots of older brothers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Complex Hand Signals | 4/10/2000 | See Source »

...wanted to sing or become an actor. But that's okay because now I'm a mediator, psychologist, mentor, leader, role model, counselor and comedian...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: HUPD: Harvard's in-house police fight parasites and make friends. | 3/16/2000 | See Source »

...something the other houses lack--the legacy of the famed Harvard psychologist William James, who lived there during the final years of his life...

Author: By Harriett E. Green, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: City Residents Petition To Save Historic Site | 3/13/2000 | See Source »

...will it be so much easier to blame him for being morally defective at 16, after another 10 years in that environment? As the twig is bent, the tree is inclined. ("A young child is even more open to cultural and family influence than an older kid," a psychologist told the New York Times. True. But older kids were once young--that is, when they got the firm dispositions, for good or ill, that later resisted social influence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Age of Innocence? | 3/13/2000 | See Source »

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