Word: psychologists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Devised by Harvard Psychologist Burrhus F. Skinner,* the box is a big incubator with the temperature-kept at 88°, humidity at 50%. In it, the Hope twins wore nothing but diapers. The idea was that without confining clothes they could thrash about, play better and grow faster, and that in a controlled atmosphere they would catch fewer colds...
...went among them in a double capacity, as both psychologist and priest [and in] a position of neutrality between company and union . . . Almost all of them relaxed and spoke freely once we were under way . . . For some of the workers it was perhaps the first time in their lives that they talked extensively to one who valued their opinions and simply listened." Dual Allegiance. The workers' No. i want, the listener learned, was steady work, without layoffs or cuts in hours or pay. Next to dependable income, what the workers wanted most was to be treated with dignity...
...Loving kindness can make as much difference to the growing rat as to the developing child, said Psychologist Otto Weininger of Toronto. Laboratory rats that he petted and fondled grew faster and bigger, and resisted stress better than their brother rats...
Hence by 1942 a physician, a psychiatrist, a statistician, a psychologist, a sociologist, a lawyer, and an economist had been added to the permanent staff. By then, the Center of Alcohol Studies had become a distinct unit of the Yale Laboratory of Applied Physiology...
...gaps. All microphones fed into a huge recording machine in the basement, while a drum on the library wall conceals a separate sound system. The "bamboo room," now used for seminars, was then an observation chamber for Cambridge children at play. Behind a one way mirror, a psychologist could record his impressions of them...