Word: psychologists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Influencing people is an art, but even art is measured by scientists' yardsticks nowadays. Last week a psychologist reduced to statistics some surprising facts about the subtle art of changing people's minds through discussion. Dr. Ray H. Simpson, an instructor in Barnard College, made a study of Those Who Influence and Those Who Are Influenced in Discussions.* His guinea pigs were 185 college girls (Dr. Simpson says his findings would probably have been similar if the subjects had been men.) He determined their opinions on many issues, then formed groups of four students each, with differing opinions...
Premier-General. How the hard, resolute Czech people would react in a crisis was shrewdly guessed by Psychologist Dr. Benes, and with perfect confidence he left it to them to mill spontaneously through the streets of Prague in monster demonstrations which finally reached 250,000, shouting and screaming hour after hour "Give us arms! We want to fight! Don't yield a centimeter! Give us Syrovy...
...left it to high-minded, sad-faced Viscount Halifax, the British Foreign Secretary, to tell Polish and Hungarian envoys in London at two extremely angry sessions that they could not have what Germany could wrest by her Might; instead, they must delay their claims until a later date. The psychologist of Prague correctly judged that this would be the point at which Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain would balk, telling the Führer at Godesberg that, while one piece might have to be carved off Czechoslovakia, it was impossible for His Majesty's Government to make themselves a party...
...personnel of the new addition to the over-crowded Hygiene Building has been drawn from both Harvard and outside sources and a physician, psychologist, psychiatrist, physiologist, anthropologist, social worker, and two secretaries...
...Psychologist, Lyman Wells, obtained his Ph.D. at Columbia in 1906. In 1921 he became an instructor in the Medical School and instructor in the Medical School and in recent years has been an assistant professor of psychology there. From 1925 to 1928 he was a member of the National Research Council in the division of anthropology and psychology. As a member of the National Committee of Mental Hygiene he has been chiefly interested in clinical psychometrics and mental hygiene...