Word: psychologyical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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A decade ago, Arthur Jensen discovered that fact the hard way. Jensen, then a little-known professor of educational psychology at the University of California at Berkeley, created a furor and became a target of abuse by publishing an article in the Harvard Educational Review. Its claim: based on IQ...
Asked to summarize briefly what topics he will cover in his course, Social Analysis 12, "Crime and Human Nature," James Q. Wilson, Shattuck Professor of Government, winces before answering: "You know, all the biggies: crime, war, revolution, sex." He admits it all sounds somewhat overreaching and "a little apocalyptic," but...
Unlike many introductory social science courses "with their laundry list of unrelated bits of knowledge," Wilson claims his course will discuss different aspects of crime only as they relate to this central issue. Wilson will lead his students through possible answers--including theories of personality, social environment, neighborhood formation, economics...
In Florida, the critics are right: a reporter who flunked psychology in college became a licensed psychologist in Miami, a hamster was officially dubbed "animal psychologist" in Pensacola, and a pet chameleon was licensed as a psychoanalyst and sex therapist in Polk County.
In his later years, Freud also denied the links between psychoanalysis and biology, which Sulloway considers a tragic mistake. Freud's evolutionary notions of the instinctual and nonrational derive from Darwin, and in the 1890s he had dreamed of wedding psychology to biology. That all changed as Freud and...