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...mediator,” Whitehead Professor of Government Dennis F. Thompson writes in an e-mail. “As president, he actually encouraged controversy. His annual letters (and many of his speeches) boldly challenged many powerful constituencies of the university.”In fact, Harvard psychologist Richard J. Herrnstein published a 1971 article in The Atlantic Monthly that argued that differences in mental ability were largely inherited and partly attributable to income inequalities. Despite the storm of criticism that Herrnstein received, Bok stood by him, condemning the attacks at a faculty meeting and re-affirming that the First...
...Summers' star faculty hires, psychologist Steven Pinker, told the Harvard Crimson just before the resignation announcement that he feared Summers was going to become "like every other college president--just a caretaker, a fund raiser and a mouther of platitudes." Well, being verbally provocative isn't the job of Harvard's president. The job is to make a successful but fragmented university cohere intellectually and educationally. A publicly bland president who did that would be a hero...
...leadership.“If he’s going to be like every other college president—just a caretaker, fundraiser, and a mouther of platitudes—then why do we need someone who’s also going to offend people?” said psychologist Steven Pinker, who was one of Summers’ most prominent supporters last year.“If all he’s going to do is roll over and let the Faculty do business as usual,” Pinker continued, “then let?...
Like ACT, cognitive therapy shares a personality with its co-founder. Beck's biographer, Brown psychologist Marjorie Weishaar, writes that in his younger years, Beck had public-speaking anxiety and a phobia about tunnels. He solved both problems by correcting misimpressions he had developed: "One day, approaching the Holland Tunnel, he realized that he was interpreting the tightness in his chest as a sign he was suffocating," Weishaar writes. He wasn't, of course, and when he "worked that through cognitively," the phobia vanished. Similarly, his stage fright eased "with continued practice and challenging his automatic thoughts...
...usually roomfuls of Ph.D.s, to do things like repeat the word milk over and over (to show how meaningless words can become-try it with I'm depressed). And although Hayes teaches mindfulness at ACT workshops around the world, he epitomizes "the absent-minded professor," according to Barlow, the psychologist who taught Hayes at Brown in the '70s. Hayes is famous at Nevada-Reno for passing students in the hall without so much as a nod. But it's worse than they think. According to Hayes' wife Jacqueline Pistorello, in December the couple went to the mall to buy Christmas...