Word: psychologists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though London's critics unanimously and openly sneered, Howard Hughes's sexsational The Outlaw was playing to record crowds at the London Pavilion. Last week 23-year-old Pressagent Suzanne Warner hit a headline jackpot. She lured a psychologist with a psycho-galvanometer (a gadget that measures emotional reactions) into the Pavilion. Her report: ¶ Critic Walter Wilcox of the Sunday Dispatch, who had penned a cool review, had a warm, 24-centimeter reaction to a close-up of Jane Russell's parted lips. ¶Hostile Critic Dick Richards of the Sunday Pictorial registered a more-than...
...psychologist's conclusions: 1) average response to the film's Tchaikovsky background music-15 centimeters; 2) average reaction to Jane-22 centimeters; 3) average reaction to Jane with a Tchaikovsky background-34 centimeters. Press agent Warner's summary: "Tchaikovsky + Jane Russell...
...People (at least in Britain) are becoming less intelligent, reported London Psychologist Sir Cyril Burt. It is an old story, said Sir Cyril, that the intelligent well-to-do have fewer children than the poor. The real hitch: "Among the far more (numerous working classes it is still the most intelligent families who contribute fewest to the next generation...
Burrhus Frederick Skinner, professor of Psychology at Indiana University and noted experimental psychologist, will take over the William James lectureship next September, succeeding, among others, the English philosopher Bertrand Russell, who occupied the post in 1940-1941, the University announced last week...
From equally ever-ready Psychologist James F. Bender, the men learned how to hang on to their wives. Dr. Bender, director of the National Institute of Human Relations, recommended more thoroughgoing kissing...