Word: psychologistic
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...hero to most blacks, but he has become an indelible symbol of their mistreatment by white authority. "We always reach out to another black person we perceive as being mistreated by whites because it has happened to so many of us," says Darlene Powell Hopson, a black clinical psychologist. Says political scientist Andrew Hacker, author of Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal: "I hear a lot of anger from even middle-class and professional blacks about this. They believe that the police, the prosecutors, the whole criminal justice system are out to tear down black men, especially successful...
Kidman, though, does have a will of kryptonite, forged in Sydney, where she was raised by her father, a biochemist and clinical psychologist, and her mother, a teacher of nursing. As a girl, she was embarrassed by her height. And while her friends surfed, fair-skinned Nicole fretted about freckling. Drama was the solution. "It was natural for me," she says, "to want to disappear into a dark theater." Soon she had the poise that would bloom into a regal grace under pressure in Dead Calm, Days of Thunder (where she met Cruise) and Billy Bathgate, as Dutch Schultz...
This warm embrace by educators has left some scientists in a bind. On one hand, says Yale psychologist Salovey, "I love the idea that we want to teach people a richer understanding of their emotional life, to help them achieve their goals." But, he adds, "what I would oppose is training conformity to social expectations." The danger is that any campaign to hone emotional skills in children will end up teaching that there is a "right" emotional response for any given situation--laugh at parades, cry at funerals, sit still at church. "You can teach self-control," says Dr. Alvin...
...intellect either to cure cancer or engineer a deadly virus, someone with great empathic insight could use it to inspire colleagues or exploit them. Without a moral compass to guide people in how to employ their gifts, emotional intelligence can be used for good or evil. Columbia University psychologist Walter Mischel, who invented the marshmallow test and others like it, observes that the knack for delaying gratification that makes a child one marshmallow richer can help him become a better citizen or--just as easily--an even more brilliant criminal...
Some aspects of emotional intelligence, however, can be quantified. Optimism, for example, is a handy measure of a person's self-worth. According to Martin Seligman, a University of Pennsylvania psychologist, how people respond to setbacks--optimistically or pessimistically--is a fairly accurate indicator of how well they will succeed in school, in sports and in certain kinds of work. To test his theory, Seligman devised a questionnaire to screen insurance salesmen at MetLife...