Word: psychologists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sorts of bad habits," says Michael Freire of the Tamiami Range and Gun Shop in Florida. "They see themselves as either Rambo, Roy Rogers or Daniel Boone." Women, he adds, take their time in learning to shoot. "Discipline is the whole point of training," explains Carol Kolen, a Chicago psychologist who has taken shooting lessons. "It gives me the feeling that I could take care of myself." Most female gun owners, say police officials, are careful to abide by the laws regulating possession of handguns. But women are less likely than men to advertise their ownership of a weapon...
...current furor, says Bernie Zilbergeld, an Oakland psychologist and longtime critic of Masters and Johnson, stems from what he terms their "chronic inability to be precise." For example, he asks, how do they know that their 400 nonmonogamous study subjects were not bisexuals or IV drug abusers? Epidemiologists long ago learned that people often admit to risky behavior only after they have been told they test positive. Yet Masters and Johnson did not extensively question their subjects about high-risk behavior...
...Army jungle-warfare expert, as he emerged from an information session at an Internal Revenue Service taxpayer-assistance office in Brooklyn. "I went to college for three years, and now I can't even do my own taxes." The record keeping alone has overwhelmed Arlene Lind, a San Francisco psychologist: "I'm just going to staple the similar-colored papers together, let my accountant figure it out and hope he knows what he's doing...
...Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams, the psychologist argues that dreams allow the unconscious to send secret messages to the brain, releasing information pertaining to repressed desires and emotions...
FREUD coined a now-popular term, "anal-retentiveness," that means more and more to me while I'm at Harvard. I'm not a psychologist, so I have no idea if I use the phrase correctly, but lately I notice a preponderance of such behavior...