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...KEYNOTE SPEECH of the first-ever AWARE Week in 1989, Colgate psychologist John Dovidio told the gathered penitents that 15 percent of Americans are overtly racist, while the remaining 85 percent are racists and don't realize it. The message was clear: AWARE Week intends to dig out that hidden fiber of racism and hang it out for view, thus comforting the aggrieved and assuaging the consciences of the offenders. This week's agenda is loaded with the same stuff: a workshop on "Addressing Issues of Personal Racism," a panel discussion on "Multiculturalism in the Ivory Tower...
...stoic view. "I'm not frightened anymore. Once I get the mask on, I spend the rest of the time in our sealed room playing Nintendo," says Yoni Radzinski, 10, of Herzliya, a town just northeast of Tel Aviv. "By and large, Israeli kids are coping very well," says psychologist Robert Asch of the Ministry of Education. He predicts that tensions and boredom, a growing problem, will ease still further once children begin returning to school. But a residue of fear and bad dreams is likely to remain even after the gulf war ends...
...gulf. She'd been having trouble concentrating at work. But when she felt herself losing control, overwhelmed by a rising sense of panic, she dialed the toll-free hot line provided by her company for employees in distress. A counselor on the other end referred her to a local psychologist for help...
...activists, on the other hand, are jumping on a bandwagon and celebrating their submission to established authority. "Love for one's country which is not part of one's love of humanity," wrote psychologist Erich Fromm, "is not love, but idolatrous worship...
...taxiing to get into takeoff position." As the workplace becomes ever more technologically sophisticated, the price of disaster is higher. "So many more people can be hurt when a train engineer or a nuclear technician falls asleep in 1990 than when a stagecoach driver fell asleep in 1890," notes psychologist Merrill Mitler, director of sleep research at the Scripps Clinic in La Jolla, Calif...