Word: psychologists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...subject of sports psychology has a growing number of athletic believers, according to Douglas H. Powell, psychologist at U.H.S., yet mans Harvard training programs make no use of what Fish terms, "one of the keys to athletic success...
...Muzak Corp., which is now part of Westinghouse, estimates that its recordings are heard by 80 million people every day; they are syndicated in 19 countries; the company and its affiliates take in more than $150 million annually. "Muzak promotes the sharing of meaning," says James Keenan, an industrial psychologist and chairman of the firm's board of scientific advisers, "because it massifies symbolism in which not few but all can participate." But not quite all, Dr. Keenan...
Maressa H. Orzack, the psychologist running the study at McLean, said that it is necessary for test subjects to have had experience with the type of drugs under study because it would be "unethical for them to introduce someone to a drug they might not be able to handle." Experience, thus, is as important a pre-requisite as interest...
...image of a teen-age computer hacker that is giving the term a bad name. Many people now think of hackers as pests or perhaps even criminals. But the hackers them selves claim they are getting a bum rap from movies and newspapers. Says Bill Burns, an industrial psychologist and part-time hacker: "We are the victims of a major press screw...
...Research, which has been polling students nation wide at about 130 high schools since 1975, reports that 30% of its respondents worry often about war; the rate holds steady for blacks and whites, for those who are college-bound and those who are not. Says Jerald Bachman, a social psychologist at the institute: "On nuclear war, there is not much difference of opinion based on race, and very little difference related to college plans...