Word: psychologistic
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...promise of jobs doesn't console Chrissy Schilling, a sixty-something educational psychologist and member of Sipson's No Third Runway Action Group (NOTRAG). "I'll be living on a construction site with the additional horror that a Spanish construction company will be bulldozing an English community," she says. "It's evil." Grupo Ferrovial, a Spanish builder, controls BAA, the body that owns Heathrow...
...study of physiology. We have known for many years that people all over the world, even those from remote cultures, use the same facial expressions to convey basic emotions like grief or joy. Charles Darwin noted this phenomenon in the 19th century, and Matsumoto's mentor, a famous psychologist named Paul Ekman who traveled the globe in the 1960s, proved that both isolated tribesmen and urban Westerners identified pictures of facial expressions in the same way. Ekman demonstrated that a frown means unhappiness the world over; wide eyes mean fright or surprise; a wrinkled nose means disgust...
...possibility that your expression could affect your mood was first suggested to me by Marsha Linehan, a University of Washington psychologist who treats suicidal patients. She has found that helping patients modulate their facial expressions - relaxing the face when angry, for instance - can help them control their emotions. Ekman and his colleagues provided evidence of this in a Science paper back in 1983. They found that those instructed to produce certain facial movements showed the same physiological responses as those asked to recall a highly emotional experience. Later, a study showed that if you hold a pencil between your teeth...
Litt lives with his wife and two teenage children in suburban Westchester County, and friends say despite his workload he finds plenty of time to spend at home. His wife, Elizabeth Marek, is a clinical psychologist and has written two books including the novel Beyond the Waves. He likes do-it-yourself projects and spent many weekends turning a deck off his house into a sunroom. He is also close with his pet rabbit, Whiskers, whom Litt has trained to hop into a cage at the snap of Litt's fingers. "Whiskers is an incredibly obedient rabbit," says a friend...
...concept. "For instance, a child may get a response from saying 'I love you,' or 'I miss you,' or 'Good night.'" The goal: reassuring little ones whose parent has suddenly disappeared. "The children don't quite understand Mommy or Daddy being deployed," says Navy commander Russell Shilling, the experimental psychologist overseeing the program. "That kind of interaction - the need to say goodnight or to continue to feel connected to a parent - is very important." (See pictures of U.S. troops' 5 years in Iraq...