Word: psychologists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...against Death." Only a few days before, Hermann Goring had jested: "I have got the best sentence of all." But last week, his calm broke when he sobbingly surrendered pictures of his wife and daughter to his attorney. A prison psychologist reported that Goring dreamed of "secret revenge on the Allies...
...Psychologist Joseph Banks Rhine's PK crap-shooting [TIME, Aug. 19] has made more than a few of the veteran crapshooters here smile...
...Theodore Christian Schneirla of the New York Museum of Natural History has one absorbing interest in life. An animal psychologist of renown, he would rather study the army ant than any insect he knows. Last week he was back in Manhattan from the Canal Zone with new lore about the most predatory of ants and its life in a society of fierce complexity...
...psychic games which Psychologist Joseph Banks Rhine introduced to science-Extra-Sensory Perception (card-guessing) and Psychokinesis (crap-shooting)-psychologists have found crapshooting more fun. Rhine's PK ("mind over matter") theory, that man can control the fall of dice by will power (TIME, July 26, 1943), is now being tested on both sides of the Atlantic...
Chairman of the society's research committee is famed Psychologist Gardner Murphy, of Columbia University. With his backing, Miss Laura Abbott Dale, editor of the society's Journal, rounded up 54 college students, put them to work shooting dice. To rule out physical skill, she had them roll the dice four at a time, down a specially built washboard chute with 55 baffles, made each subject try for every number (from one to six) in turn. Results...