Word: psychologists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...these parents apply immense pressure on the children to succeed where they themselves have not. Many hire experts to teach the toddlers music, calligraphy or a foreign language. A few even force their sons and daughters to parrot elegant Tang dynasty poetry. Says Fang Xiang, a retired child psychologist: "There is no need for tutoring in composition or arithmetic. What's important is moral education at home...
...feel very good, very relieved," said Carl Gates, chief psychologist at the prison...
...Everyone knows how to get sober," says Michael Baar, an Albany, Calif., psychologist. "The problem is keeping them in that state." Relapse prevention is the latest attempt to help reduce the number of recovering alcoholics who fall off the wagon. Terence Gorski, president of the Center for Applied Sciences in Hazel Crest, Ill., has studied thousands of relapse cases and found that on their way to recovery, alcoholics go through specific stages, each with its dangerous temptation to return to drinking. Early on, it may be hard to cope with withdrawal. Later, the patient may falter in developing a normal...
...between older women and younger men, up from 16% in 1970. "It signals a profound change in how men and women are looking at each other, and what is considered a satisfying relationship," says Writer Victoria Houston, 42, whose husband Brant is nine years her junior. Indeed, declares Psychologist Sally Peterson of New York City, far from being financially or sexually exploitative, these couplings represent the "first egalitarian heterosexual relationship...
THAT THIS should be the case is not surprising. As the historian David M. Potter points out, unlike the biographer or the psychologist, the historian deals with people not as individuals but "in groups--in religious groups, in cultural groups, in ideological groups, in occupational groups, or in social groups." Theorists of social groups no doubt have useful insights for a historian...