Word: psychologists
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...billion or more annually spent on total health care for employees, a figure that has been rising by 15% a year. In addition, Benson points out, many firms are finally beginning to appreciate the long-established fact that too much stress makes workers inefficient. In 1908 Yale Psychologist Robert Yerkes, along with J.D. Dodson, demonstrated that pressure improves performance, but only up to a point; after that, efficiency drops off sharply. Relieving the strain with relaxation breaks, Benson concludes, "actually enhances performance...
Stephen Kosslyn, a prominent young cognitive psychologist at Johns Hopkins University, confirmed this week that he has accepted an offer of tenure in Harvard's Psychology and Social Relations Department...
...many who start out with wide interests become narrowly focused in their fight to get into med school. Students blame the problem on admissions committees, which emphasize grades and test scores over the personal attributes and interests that may make an individual a superior doctor. Notes Utah University Psychologist Calvin Taylor: "Based on test scores, you cannot predict who is going to be the most knowledgeable physician ten years later." Perhaps, says Thomas, "there should be an admissions quota for the solid citizens who rank in the middle of their class...
Linguist Noam Chomsky, Biologist James Watson, Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Sociobiologist E.O. Wilson and Psychologist B.F. Skinner. At a time when America is railing anew against its loss of educational vigor, Harvard's Society of Fellows last week quietly celebrated 50 years of high, uncompromising standards and remarkable accomplishment...
...current fellow is Psychologist Drazen Prelec, a Yugoslav who is developing a mathematical formulation for B.F. Skinner's reinforcement theories in behavioral psychology. Economist Barry Nalebuff, an M.I.T. graduate with a doctorate in philosophy from Oxford University, is applying games theory to problems of disarmament. Princeton Classicist Nita Krevans (women were first admitted in 1972) is exploring how the publication of manuscripts changed the way the authors thought about their compositions. Historian Mordechai Feingold is studying early modern intellectual history, including the work of Britain's John Rainolds, who in the early 17th century helped translate the King...