Word: psychologistic
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...lateborn woes. They said older parents, usually fearful of physical injury and health problems themselves, were often reluctant to participate in games and sports. Some complained they were deprived of grandparents at too early an age. "No doubt, having children earlier is better and later is worse," says Yale Psychologist Edward Zigler. "Children are always a blessing and a trial...
...these true confessions? Although police are skeptical, experts say many of the calls are probably legitimate. "Desperate people can be uncensored and unguarded at their moment of crisis," says psychologist Gerald Goodman of the University of California, Los Angeles. Though the confessions contain an element of playacting, most callers want support for admission of sins. And listening to the confessions of others makes people feel better. "It normalizes your sense of guilt over transgressions to realize hundreds of others are doing it too," explains Philip Zimbardo, a professor of psychology at Stanford University...
...phenomenal response? "It's the extreme privatization of entertainment," says psychologist Jerald Jellison of the University of Southern California. Experts believe the anonymity of the telephone offers a psychological safety valve to the secret keeper, who feels compelled to unburden himself but fears vilification. Says UCLA's Goodman: "It's the interpersonal parallel of a one-night stand...
Commuters who drive to work often show up too tired or too irritated to function effectively. Chronic exposure to traffic congestion, according to a study by Psychologist Raymond Novaco at the University of California at Irvine, tends to give drivers "an increase in baseline blood pressure, lowering of frustration tolerance, increase in negative mood and aggressive driving habits." The outbreak of freeway violence in California last year, when more than 100 freeway shootings and rock-throwing incidents took place, was not an aberration. On one Sunday last month, five separate highway shootings occurred in Oregon and Colorado...
...product, and that product is a partner. To make a decision about leaving a relationship is extremely tumultuous because of the total sense of loss." Unwed couples also tend to hide their private violence from others -- perhaps even more so than marrieds. Says Abbie Meyering, a Dallas psychologist: "Violence runs from the light of day. By the time the aggression erupts, there's very often a high level of isolation, dependence and fear about letting it become public...