Word: psychologistic
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...repeat," says Stanley Karnow, author of Vietnam: A History. "But at the same time, there's an attempt to find some redeeming aspects in it. Movies can turn a defeat into victory; you can achieve in fantasy what you didn't achieve in reality." Says Arthur Egendorf, a clinical psychologist and author of Healing from the War: Trauma and Transformation After Vietnam: "Rambo is an effort to deal with a complex, painful and deep wound with simple and sentimental responses. Part of the psychological potency of fairy tales such as these is that they dramatize our own inner struggles...
...sure, there are those who feel that soccer violence is largely a symptom of deeper social and economic problems, perhaps even a direct result of Britain's 13.5% unemployment rate. In Liverpool, for example, 25% of the labor force is out of work. "We have football," says Psychologist Peter Marsh. "Other societies have street gangs." A 1980 study of soccer hooliganism in Britain found that four-fifths of those charged with soccer- related crimes were either unemployed or manual workers. Says Sociologist John Williams of the University of Leicester: "We must go into the community to find out why young...
President Bok this morning was scheduled to confer honorary degrees on nine men and a woman, including renowned psychologist B.F. Skinner and Nobel Laureate Andre Lwoff, the French biologist...
Skinner first arrived at Harvard in 1928 where he was awarded an A. M. degree 1930 and his Ph.D in 1931. Avoiding the predominant trends in contemporary Harvard psychology. Skinner later wrote. "I was determined to become a scientific psychologist," according to a recent biography...
Other honorands include sculptor Louise Nevelson; psychologist B.F Skinner Bishop of Stockholm and former On many School Dean Krister Stendahl; British writer V.S. Pritchett; and main Commencement speaker Paul A. Volcher, the Federal Reverse Board chairman...