Word: psychologists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Dr. Alfred Adler, 67, Viennese psychologist, founder of the school of "individual psychology," originator of the phrase "inferiority complex," longtime professional enemy of Dr. Sigmund Freud, his old teacher; after collapsing in ihe street; in Aberdeen, Scotland...
...with a streamlined curriculum which makes girls worry little over mathematics or Greek, lets them concentrate instead on such subjects as Elementary Music, Consumers' Problems, Principles of Dietetics, Tap Dancing, Expressive Speech. The courses are grouped to correspond with the seven main divisions which sprightly President Wood and Psychologist Wernett W. Charters made of women's problems: ethical, physical, mental, social, communicative, esthetic, budgetary. Psychologist Charters, who was engaged by Stephens in 1922 to help President Wood decide how women differed from men, has since collected and analyzed some 7.400 women's problems...
...Addicts. At his famed colony of chimpanzees in Florida, Psychologist Robert Yerkes of Yale proved that other animals besides man could become drug fiends. With evident gusto, dapper Dr. Yerkes told the philosophers how he had made morphine addicts of two male apes eight years old. After the animals became reconciled to having their flesh pricked by dummy syringes, they were daily given one milligram of morphine per kilogram of body weight and the dose was increased to four milligrams (a much smaller intake than that of human addicts). Symptoms of addiction were increased "grooming" (scratching, skin picking, hair plucking...
Gustav Huebener, professor of English at the University of Bonn, will come over from Germany to teach, and Harry A. Overstreet, C.C.N.Y. philosopher and psychologist, will give courses in his field...
...Psychologist C. R. Carpenter and Mathematician H. R. Phalen of Columbia University say they started their experiments with proper skepticism, using 24 subjects. Two of these made significantly high averages. When they tried 30 subjects on colored cards, instead of Rhine's ESP (ExtraSensory Perception) cards, four of the 30 made impressive scores...