Word: psychologists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early in 1892 Dr. Hugo Munsterberg, a noted German psychologist, was appointed professor of Experimental Psychology and Director of the newly-founded Psychological Laboratory. Munsterberg added a considerable amount of German equipment to the laboratory and expanded its activities to include research on animals, making use of a supply of chickens which James kept in the basement of his house on Irving Place...
...when he was in the fields, left as soon as he returned. Irritated by his lonely existence, Adin finally lit on a group of neighbors and told them to stay away altogether. About this time a nephew decided Adin was showing signs of insanity. He had a talk with Psychologist Jacob Goering at Brook Lane, a Mennonite hospital for mental care. On the basis of the nephew's description, bolstered by talks with Adin's wife, Goering decided that Adin was dangerously unbalanced...
Last week Psychologist Goering. the nurse who had wielded the needle, and nine of Adin's neighbors, Mennonites all, were fined a total of $6,000 for assault in a Hagerstown, Md. court. "We have a democracy, and you should subscribe to it," scolded the judge. But the law of the Mennonite community was still the one Farmer Hege had to deal with, and there he still stood condemned. All Hege need do to return to the fold, said Bishop Horst, was to "confess his error." Said Adin: "I think I'll leave it lay right...
...indirect reply to Psychologist Frank McGurk of Villanova University, who claimed in U.S. News & World Report that Negroes have less capacity for education than whites, 18 psychologists and social scientists from such institutions as Harvard, Columbia, Michigan and the Menninger Foundation flatly denied the McGurk thesis. Though Negro children generally do not do as well in school as the whites, said the 18, their showing has nothing to do with native intelligence, but is only the result of inferior background and schooling. "The conclusion is inescapable that any decision to use differences of the average achievement of the two racial...
...would be involved in any research undertaken is Charles C. McArthur, Psychologist for the Hygiene Department who saw 90 or so people...