Word: research
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...continued to study ape behavior. Psychiatrists brought a group of deranged men & women, locked them up in another wing. With their paraphernalia of rats monkeys, cages, microscopes, slide rules, test tubes and books, in moved other psychologists, economists, educators, historians, statisticians, physiologists and a few Yale students studying research. Then its 150 savants and their disciples donned white coats and set to work studying such things as crime, disease, unemployment, war depression, adolescents' speech defects, people's reactions to relief and to parking tickets...
...broad-beamed Dr. Mark Arthur May, a psychologist, expert on educational movies and onetime theology instructor. Dr. May, who has been with the Institute since 1931 and its director since 1935, found that scientists are individualists, hard to team up, harder still to hold to a program of research. Moreover, the Institute had no clear program. Some individual divisions, notably Dr. Gesell's, turned up much valuable data, but the Institute as a whole wandered all over creation. Yale's famed Anthropologist Albert Galloway Keller sneered at the whole affair...
Three years ago Dr. May and colleagues decided that if the study of human relations was to become a science, they should, like other scientists, find a hypothesis to unify their research, test it, eventually reduce it to mathematical formulae. Thereupon they formulated a tentative theory with 14 definitions, eight postulates and about a dozen theorems. This theory was based on Sigmund Freud's frustration-aggression hypothesis, i.e., whenever an individual's natural impulses are frustrated, he commits acts of aggression against the frustrater, against others or against himself; aggression always indicates frustration. The Institute's scientists...
Experimentation with broadcasting technique and research problems, will be the main fields covered by the Social Science division of the new Harvard Radio Workshop, Lawrence I. Radway '40, chairman of the committee announced last night...
...research division will delve even further into the propaganda field, analyzing propaganda methods employed by the totalitarian stats and by the political parties in America. In addition, the difference between the interpretive and the "factual" news commentator in his appeal and influence, the question of free speech on the radio, and the problem of foreign language broadcasting will be covered...