Word: psychologistic
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...half of the new hires are women, flying off to earn salaries that are propping up the country. Last year alone, overseas workers sent home $17 billion in cash remittances, according to the World Bank. "Without the remittances, our economy will instantly collapse," says Dr. Honey Carandang, a clinical psychologist and professor at the University of the Philippines. "The whole country knows...
...Antonio Amadori, an experiential psychologist and author of a book on Berlusconi, Mi Consenta (Allow Me), believes the Prime Minister is ultimately driven by a desire to "completely fill" the public consciousness. "Asking why he does things is like asking why Jerry Lewis does things," he says. "This is who he is. He is theatrical and believes in his own charisma and abilities to improvise...
...predict the votes of the undecided? It's actually not that hard. Our brains generate automatic responses to most stimuli. As the psychologist Robert Zajonc wrote compellingly in 1980, "We do not just a see 'a house.' We see a 'handsome' house, an 'ugly' house, or a 'pretentious' house ... We sometimes delude ourselves that we proceed in a rational manner and weigh all the pros and cons of the various alternatives. But this is probably seldom the actual case. Quite often 'I decided in favor of X' is no more than 'I like X.'" Most of us pick what...
...failure to make up one's mind between two clearly differentiated candidates as an act of ignorance or dishonesty. Some voters may pretend to be undecided just so they can seem unbiased and high-minded. I asked the psychologist Steven Hayes of the University of Nevada, Reno, a former president of the highly regarded professional group now known as the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, about what's really going through the minds of the undecided. He told me in an e-mail that people often delay making a decision when "the consequences [of that decision] could be severely...
Sartorially speaking, fall is almost always dominated by warm colors (think camel, winter white), so this season's abundance of purple--and a chilly blue one at that--is "very unusual," says Leatrice Eiseman, psychologist and executive director of the Pantone Color Institute. The New Jersey--based company, which provides universal color standards for design industries and manufacturers worldwide, predicted two years ago that purple would be everywhere this fall. Eiseman sees the hybrid color as a reflection of "discontent and desire for change," a quarrel between cool blue (peace, hope) and warm red (passion, anger, turmoil...