Word: psychologists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such was Dr. Spearman's procedure. Some 1,200 persons were subjected to no less than 94 tests-for aptitude in the arts and sciences, for handling and comprehension of words, even for physical strength and "fancifulness." In all but the last two, Psychologist Spearman found the scores affected by a general factor which he called G. This G appeared to be an innate fund of mental energy, a sort of all-around cerebral handyman at the service of special endeavors and special abilities. Thus a person's proficiency at poker, for example, is the result...
...fares and given it to a passenger whose hand had been caught in the door. When accused of this he had at first denied the facts, then sullenly insisted that he had not really stolen the dollar since he was saving trouble and money for the company. The psychologist thought it significant that this man had passed the ordinary tests with flying colors, but had accidents frequently...
...Thirtyfour representatives of the four estates-business, labor, agriculture and education-were picked by the President to advise his $50,000,000 National Youth Administration. Among them were: Owen D. Young, aged 60; William Green, 62; Psychologist Charles Hubbard Judd, 62; Bishop Francis John McConnell, 63; President Ernest Hiram Lindley of the University of Kansas, 65; Inventor Hiram Percy Maxim, 65, Publisher Bernarr Macfadden, 66. Some youngsters also got on the committee: A. A. Berle Jr., 40; Amelia Earhart Putnam...
...less than 270, during the three years that indignant Executive Secretary Jack Anthony of the Alimony Reform League of New York State has been prying into the psychology of women who have their onetime mates jailed for nonpayment of alimony. Lately Dr. Lewis Madison Terman, distinguished Stanford University psychologist, after tabulating the results of a questionnaire, described the typical divorced woman as lacking "sweet femininity" but possessing "rugged strength, self-sufficiency and detached tolerance" (TIME, June 24). But Dr. Terman had no evidence that any of his rugged women were keeping their husbands in jail. The questionnaire which Mr. Anthony...
Died. Mrs. Rosalie Rayner Watson, 36, wife and collaborator of famed Child Psychologist John Broadus Watson, founder of Behaviorism and vice president of J. Walter Thompson Co.. Manhattan ad-firm; after brief illness; in Norwalk, Conn...