Word: psychologists
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...admits more readily than a good psychologist that psychology is not an exact science. Whereas in a few departments its methods may approach mathematical precision, in others, like research on character and personality, the procedures are just reaching the point where results of any clarity at all are possible. Yet into this hazy realm psychologists feel justified in pushing, and in reporting therefrom their findings, so long as, like good scientists, they warn the reader of factors that may obfuscate the conclusions. With no less than nine such warnings, Dr. Lewis Madison Terman, head of Stanford University's psychology...
Amplifying this last week, Lecturer Anderson said he might be called a Christian Scientist, psychologist, evangelist or Baptist, "but I do not claim to be any of these. I simply believe in the lessons of Jesus Christ." Asked if he thought he could become President of the U. S. simply by believing in it, he parried: "Ah! If! If I believed it! But I would not believe that. A woman in London asked me whether if she believed she were Queen Mary she would be Queen Mary. I said yes, that there was only one sane woman in England...
Such was one of the questions which Columbia's famed Psychologist Edward Lee Thorndike lately put to 40 unemployed young men and women. The men asked a median price of $260,000,000, the women $1,375,000. Next Professor Thorndike promised them secrecy in their cannibalism. Promptly the men lost their squeamishness, dropped their price to $50,000. The women still wanted $750,000. Finally Dr. Thorndike made the same offers to 24 unemployed men and women over 40. Two-thirds of them flatly refused to practice cannibalism at any price. Professor Thorndike wanted chiefly to find...
Shrewd Professor Donald Anderson Laird of Colgate University who, besides pursuing a scientific study of sleep, is consulting psychologist to the Order of Sleeping Car Conductors, recently asked the American Medical Association the following question...
Professor Lashley received an A.B., 1910, University of West Virginia; M.S., 1911, University of Pittsburgh; and Ph.D., 1914. Johns Hopkins. He was a member of the faculty of the University of Minnesota from 1917 to 1926; was psychologist under the Behavior Research Fund of the Institute for Juvenile Research, 1927-29; and has been professor of Psychology at the University of Chicago since...