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Studies of latchkey kids conducted by family sociologist Hyman Rodman of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro suggest that they are not measurably worse off than other kids, at least in terms of self-esteem and behavior in school. But Thomas Long, a Bethesda, Maryland, child psychologist who has also studied such children, believes they are emotionally vulnerable. They tend to fall into two groups, he says: those who see themselves as independent and capable, and those who see their situation as one of rejection and abandonment. Many children, he says, find that being alone is "frightening, initially, then...
Jacobs is already spending his weeks at the NIH campus. With a staff that includes a pharmacist, an immunologist and a psychologist, he is crafting standards for the 10 two-year research projects the office plans to fund at $100,000 each. Jacobs expects to steer clear of alternative therapies already being studied by other NIH departments, including the use of transcendental meditation for cardiovascular disease and acupuncture for substance abuse. "We may look at touch therapy, which is said to make patients better quicker," he says. "Or homeopathy, to relieve allergies, bronchitis or insomnia." He is also intrigued...
...psychologist demonstrated experiments involving the concept of priming, or the enhancement ofperception as a consequence of recent experience. Subjects were asked to identify muffled words, some of which they had heard enunciated properly minutes before. The syudy showed that subjects understood the words they had just heard better then the unfamiliar words...
...does all this mean that love is merely a phony emotion that we picked up because our culture celebrates it? Psychologist Lawrence Casler, author of Is Marriage Necessary?, forcefully thinks so, at least at first: "I don't believe love is part of human nature, not for a minute. There are social pressures at work." Then falls a shadow over this certainty. "Even if it is a part of human nature, like crime or violence, it's not necessarily desirable...
...resorted to violence were usually those who were most isolated, socially and economically; they had been the most badly beaten, their children had been abused, and their husbands were drug or alcohol abusers. That is, the common bond was circumstantial, not psychological. "They're not pathological," says social psychologist Blackman. "They don't have personality disorders. They're just beat up worse...