Word: psychologistic
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...inner cities, where weapons are treated like household appliances, the lessons in cruelty usually start at home. Psychologist Charles Patrick Ewing, author of Kids Who Kill, has found that many young people committing seemingly motiveless killings were themselves sexually or physically abused. "To brutalize another human being, a youngster has to have been brutalized himself," he says. Ewing finds that teenage murderers often don't recall, or won't admit, that they were once victims. "A street tough would rather go to the gas chamber than admit to having been beaten or sodomized by a male relative...
Many parents think their babies are geniuses. Now a report in Nature argues -- not altogether convincingly -- that tots can actually add and subtract at five months. After showing objects to infants, a psychologist hid the objects with a screen; she then reached behind the screen to add or remove one. But she added or subtracted objects surreptitiously as well. When the screen was lifted, the infants stared longer at a wrong number of objects than they did when the result was correct. Conclusion: they were doing a double take. Ah, science...
...Eric, bisexuality "enhances the human experience. You get a fuller, richer sexual life. Other men plow through life without understanding the parts of themselves that are feminine." Bisexuals often claim to be more sensitive and empathic lovers. "There is some truth in that," says psychologist William Wedin, director of New York City's Bisexual Information and Counseling Service. "Part of being bisexual means that you see things from more than one perspective. You can't be comfortable in stereotypical ways of thinking and reacting...
Viewers' familiarity with the gore genre has never bothered Brian De Palma. He has been considered a Hitchcock groupie for so long that, by now, the slur seems like a badge. The plot of Raising Cain -- about a child psychologist (John Lithgow) still under the spell of his mad-scientist father and an evil twin named Cain -- swipes from Psycho and Michael Powell's sicko classic Peeping Tom. What's fun here is that De Palma has rung cunning changes on Hitchcockian twists. What if the car that Norman Bates watched sink into the swamp had a woman inside, clawing...
...forum, moderated by Niti Seth, a staff psychologist at the Bureau of Study Counsel, students shared the views as well as hypothetical scenarios and personal experiences of acist or disapproving attitudes toward interracial relationships...