Word: psychologistic
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...face greater risk of ill effects than women, possibly because they tend to store excess fat in the abdomen, while women carry it around the hips and thighs. Fat from the belly is more easily mobilized and sent into the bloodstream, where it can clog vital blood vessels. Psychologist Kelly Brownell of Yale University, who directed the study, emphasizes that the findings do not condemn dieting. Rather, they indicate that people need to set realistic goals and be committed to making long-term changes in their habits...
...SUNY-Buffalo's psychologist Bunker says, "a fabulous move dramatically, a catharsis for all those times you've taken something and couldn't give it back." But taken together with some of the women's other acts, does it represent an excessive response to the provocation? Sarandon insists not. She says the charge shows "what a straight, white male world movies traditionally occupy. This kind of scrutiny does not happen to Raiders of the Lost Ark or that Schwarzenegger thing ((Total Recall)) where he shoots a woman in the head and says, 'Consider that a divorce.' " Sarandon insists that...
...mood in the streets also touches on America's role in the world, another area where people's attitudes have become more sophisticated than in years past. What Americans wanted more than anything else, argues University of Denver psychologist Paul Block, "is some proof of our control of the international situation, to make things go the way we want them to, to prevent people from doing what we consider to be wrong." The swiftness of the allied victory would deter future invaders; America's leverage in war would be the best guarantor of peace...
...this contention was born a set of arguments that have become politically correct wisdom on campus and in academic circles. This view holds that rape is a symbol of women's vulnerability to male institutions and attitudes. "It's sociopolitical," insists Gina Rayfield, a New Jersey psychologist. "In our culture men hold the power, politically, economically. They're socialized not to see women as equals...
...whom? Those who view rape through a political lens tend to place all responsibility on men to make sure that their partners are consenting at every point of a sexual encounter. At the extreme, sexual relations come to resemble major surgery, requiring a signed consent form. Clinical psychologist Mary P. Koss of the University of Arizona in Tucson, who is a leading scholar on the issue, puts it rather bluntly: "It's the man's penis that is doing the raping, and ultimately he's responsible for where he puts...