Word: psychologistic
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Shock turned to grief, followed by the hollow ache of the town's terrible loss. For weeks, Algona's ministers counseled their congregations. Funeral director Mike Schaaf, who buried the Dreesmans, organized a grief-recovery seminar, bringing from Des Moines a psychologist specializing in traumatic losses. "If the killing had occurred in a crack-ridden city like New York or Detroit," says Schaaf, "we would have understood. Not in Algona...
...pursuit of a simpler life with deeper meaning is a major shift in America's private agenda. "This is a rapid and extremely powerful movement," says Ross Goldstein, a San Francisco psychologist and market researcher. "I'm impressed by how deep it goes into the fabric of this country." Says noted theologian Martin Marty of the University of Chicago: "We are all warned against thinking in terms of trends that correspond with decades, but this one is a cinch. I think that people are going to look back at today as a hinge period in the country's history." Some...
Such changes in course are often wrenching for Asian-American youths because of strong parental pressure to achieve in areas with a high career payoff. , "They are raised to suffer through their problems alone much more than in other cultures," explains Karen Huang, a clinical psychologist at Stanford who has counseled many Asian-American students. "Also, Asian parents are more concerned about guiding their children and less interested in listening to what they want or need...
...represents the most comprehensive work to date. Epidemiologist David Williamson and his research team reviewed data on 1,885 smokers and 768 nonsmokers who were studied over a period of 13 years. The report provides the clearest demonstration that women gain more than men, notes Neil Grunberg, medical psychologist at Bethesda's Uniformed Services University, who wrote an accompanying editorial. "It's very impressive...
...something into one's mouth. But experts increasingly believe physiological factors play the largest role. Nicotine, found in tobacco, speeds up physiological functions, especially the rate at which the body metabolizes food. "Though people will tell you they smoke to relax, in reality, they're all charged up," says psychologist Daniel Kirschenbaum of Chicago's Northwestern Memorial Hospital. A smoker's heart rate, for instance, averages 84 beats a minute, compared with 72 beats for a nonsmoker. When smoking stops, metabolism slows down, food is burned more slowly and the pounds can start piling on. Research by psychologist Richard Keesey...