Word: psychologists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also investigators, like me, who are concerned with studies that may throw light on whether or not human personality or some aspect of it survives bodily death. Whether or not the facts allow us to say that we have evidence for survival after death, as held for instance by Psychologist Gardner Murphy, they do indicate that the problem of survival is open to scientific inquiry...
...heritage, modern man seems to be doing his best to dismiss death as an unfortunate incident. Carl Jung warned against abandoning the traditional view of death "as the fulfillment of life's meaning and its goal in the truest sense, instead of a mere meaningless cessation." Psychologist Rollo May feels that the repression of death "is what makes modern life banal, empty and vapid. We run away from death by making a cult of automatic progress, or by making it impersonal. Many people think they are facing death when they are really sidestepping it with the old eat-drink...
...tend to have a high degree of thanatophobia (fear of death). To them death is the enemy and its victory a personal defeat from which they naturally turn away. In addition, indications are that many doctors had above-average anxiety about death in their childhood, and Dr. Herman Feifel, psychologist at the Los Angeles Veterans Clinic, speculates that this is why they became doctors in the first place...
...five following designs is not like the other four?"); reasoning ("If Bill is taller than Bob and Bob is taller than Ed, then Bill is what to Ed?"). Some test experts rate students separately on these abilities. "A person is not smart or stupid in general," explains Harvard Psychologist Gerald S. Lesser. "He can be smart and stupid at the same time. Each of us is better at certain things than at others...
...Things." Aerospace is now working on a score of projects that include the MOL (for Manned Orbiting Laboratory) program and Defense Department communication satellites. Such services as the psychologist and public relations counselors have been dropped, and the Air Force's auditing has been tightened up. "There have been no big bad things," insists Secretary Zuckert. The little bad things, however, took on enlarged significance simply because Defense has contracts with 300 other nonprofit organizations. Stunned by what it found at Aerospace, the House Armed Services subcommittee intends to look into spending and allowances at some of these...