Word: psychologistic
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...subject of sports psychology has a growing number of athletic believers, according to Douglas H. Powell, psychologist at U.H.S., yet mans Harvard training programs make no use of what Fish terms, "one of the keys to athletic success...
Strongly encouraged by her father, Chicago Personnel Psychologist Eldon Wonderlic, Kolbe went to Northwestern, tried journalism, then moved with her husband and two children to Arizona. Dissatisfied with their education in Scottsdale, she decided to start a summer school of her own. "It has been written for centuries that thinking is important," she says, "but that is a lot different from saying, 'I have a method of showing how to do that.' " She wanted to teach children how to think creatively and critically, to use both the analytical left side of the brain and the more intuitive right side...
...Muzak Corp., which is now part of Westinghouse, estimates that its recordings are heard by 80 million people every day; they are syndicated in 19 countries; the company and its affiliates take in more than $150 million annually. "Muzak promotes the sharing of meaning," says James Keenan, an industrial psychologist and chairman of the firm's board of scientific advisers, "because it massifies symbolism in which not few but all can participate." But not quite all, Dr. Keenan...
Maressa H. Orzack, the psychologist running the study at McLean, said that it is necessary for test subjects to have had experience with the type of drugs under study because it would be "unethical for them to introduce someone to a drug they might not be able to handle." Experience, thus, is as important a pre-requisite as interest...
...image of a teen-age computer hacker that is giving the term a bad name. Many people now think of hackers as pests or perhaps even criminals. But the hackers them selves claim they are getting a bum rap from movies and newspapers. Says Bill Burns, an industrial psychologist and part-time hacker: "We are the victims of a major press screw...