Word: psychologistic
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Goleman, a psychologist and science writer for the New York Times, is best known for his ground-breaking synthesis of psychological and neurological research, Emotional Intelligence...
William P. Moynihan '00 reports that a student named "[Edidiong N.] Ikpe '00 said it is possible [Janice] George was mentally unstable." ("Students Befriend a Fraud," news story, Sept. 24). What does mental instability have to do with deception? It is more likely that a psychologist would deceive someone. Attributing mental illness is an effective way to discredit someone as Ikpe has done...
According to Kagan, the report refutes psychologist Arnold Shoenberg's study that dissonant music is a matter of taste...
...these lines of research are making it clear that attacking obesity as a physiological disorder is scientifically sound and that Redux--imperfect though it may be--is a step in the right direction. Says Yale psychologist Kelly Brownell: "We're at a historic moment in the treatment of obesity. The drugs themselves are less important than the fact that drugs for obesity are again on the scene." A new generation of antiobesity medicines is in the pipeline, under active development by drug companies, and yet another generation is sure to follow. As popular as Redux may be, both...
...invariably doomed to a lingering, unpleasant death from an illness that is as yet incurable. This also means that the test results will sound either a death sentence or a reprieve--a fact that must be made clear during pretest counseling, says Nancy Wexler, the Columbia University clinical psychologist whose research led to the discovery of the Huntington's gene. Because of their decision to take the test, she says, some 50,000 Americans are living without symptoms but with the dismaying knowledge that they have the Huntington's gene and will someday succumb to the disease...