Word: psychologists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...method is important for three reasons: 1) it saves time and labor for the hypnotist, who can take over where the record leaves off with his subject well in a trance; 2) it enables the psychologist to select good hypnotic subjects from among a group of people, without going through the time consuming preliminaries himself; 3) and it provides a standardized means of studying the effects of hypnotism since all subjects hear the same thing...
...melancholy college student took his troubles to a quack "psychologist." The quack told him to enroll in a course in public speaking and tell his troubles to the class. The student tried it, broke down, later committed suicide...
...Children should not be spanked, declared Yale's Dr. Arnold Gesell, particularly when they are around 2½ years old. Such a child is just learning the difference between "yes" and "no," "come" and "go." When he seems disobedient he is probably only confused. For confused parents, Psychologist Gesell added: "If a child becomes destructive, you can try to beat it out of him . . . The better way is to try to lead him to play situations where these impulses are directed and put to constructive ends . . ." In other words, give him something better...
...became first president of New York's State University, which exists only on paper. After next March the job will make him top man on the campuses of 32 state colleges and institutes, which will have local administrators but be controlled from Albany. A former professor of education, Psychologist Eurich likes to think up tests. His best known one, which he and Elmo C. Wilson devised: TIME'S Current Affairs Test...
Contemporary man, awed by the beady eye of the child psychologist and the social worker, finds the most respectable Victorian blood far too bloody for his taste, concludes Author Turner. Dick Barton, the BBC detective to whom an estimated one in three of the British population listens nightly, is straitjacketed by all the restraints of a U.S. comic-strip hero. In his struggles, Dick may fight with nothing but his bare fists...