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Kagan is the second tenured Harvard psychologist to announce that he will leave the department this year...
Child psychology has developed rapidly since Kagan came to Harvard in 1964. Then, several key assumptions governed study in the field. Psychologist's assumed, for instance, that the brain's development was fixed at birth. It was also thought that family relationships are wholly important in predicting the future social behavior of children. Experts in the field also assumed that culture and class had little affect on a child's chances for happiness and fulfillment...
...massive audience witnessed, live, a parade of people trying to use their heads to strike it rich. Question quickly spawned a number of instant folk heros and heroines: the New York City cop who had brushed up his Shakespeare ($16,000); the shoemaker opera buff ($32,000); the young psychologist named Joyce Brothers whose specialty was prizefighting...
...remorse for the hurt they were about to cause their parents, their ability to shut off such pangs of guilt is also characteristic of ASP. "There was some remorseful thinking, but not enough to compensate for the enormous excitement of the enterprise they were contemplating," says Stanton Samenow, a psychologist and author of several books on criminal personality...
Thomas Thompson, a New Mexico forensic psychologist, insists that ASPs are "hardwired to act out," and that "they lack free will." His evaluations recently helped convert the sentences of two death-row inmates to life in prison. Yet Thompson's brand of biological determinism sets off alarms for many. "The idea that you're simply born bad is an evil misconception," says Peter Fonagy, director of the Child and Family Center at the Menninger Clinic, who has done a review of conduct-disorder studies for the British government. "We have to look at intervening early and how that can help...