Word: psychologists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Proud of It. The original choice of title was not made lightly, says Psychologist-Editor James McConnell, who heads the University of Michigan planarian (flatworm) research group, which publishes the W.R.D, "In psychological jargon," he explains, "those who experiment with rats are called 'rat runners,' and those who work with insects are called 'bug runners.' So we are 'worm runners'-and we're proud of it." Not enough scientists dig McConnell's logic-or humor. Some will not publish their work in a journal with so frivolous a name. Editors of other...
McConnell vows that he will retreat no farther in his battle with the conformists. The new Journal of Biological Psychology will still contain an upside-down humor section and a back cover with Worm Runner's Digest printed defiantly across it. "It seems to me," says the embattled psychologist, "that anyone who takes himself or his work too seriously is in a perilous state of mental health. I believe that the Digest is proof that a great many scientists can appreciate humor even when it's pointed at their own life's work, and that a scientist...
...Your Essay reveals the subconscious, repressed, latent-homosexual, anxiety-ridden amateur psychologist's traumatic dependency on the compulsive, depressing gullibility of the confused, simple, inferiority-complex-suffering American public. So what else...
...reprise of his role as Our Man Flint. In prison, Kotch cranks up a steal-a-million scheme, a testament to the faith of moviemakers that a tale so often told must be good for something-even if it is no longer good for laughs. After a cool blonde psychologist bounces him from a group therapy session behind bars to a bit of grope therapy in her bed, Kotch jumps parole, then hooks and crooks his way toward California...
Other shows follow Rockefeller Univer sity Microbiologist James Hirsch on his search for the "Secret of the White Cell," Louisiana Psychologist William Mason in a study of the "Childhood of the Chimpanzee," and Stanford Physi cist Arthur Schawlow on the mysteries of the "Laser - the Light of the Future...