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...political systems, and the Simpson trial only reflects the superficiality of the times. It's the same old struggle: the rich and powerful manipulate us and blind the common citizen. It's the same old story: the poor and innocent get poorer. The rich--white or black--get richer. LOUIS ALEXANDER JIMANEZ Santa Monica, California...
This warm embrace by educators has left some scientists in a bind. On one hand, says Yale psychologist Salovey, "I love the idea that we want to teach people a richer understanding of their emotional life, to help them achieve their goals." But, he adds, "what I would oppose is training conformity to social expectations." The danger is that any campaign to hone emotional skills in children will end up teaching that there is a "right" emotional response for any given situation--laugh at parades, cry at funerals, sit still at church. "You can teach self-control," says Dr. Alvin...
...Without a moral compass to guide people in how to employ their gifts, emotional intelligence can be used for good or evil. Columbia University psychologist Walter Mischel, who invented the marshmallow test and others like it, observes that the knack for delaying gratification that makes a child one marshmallow richer can help him become a better citizen or--just as easily--an even more brilliant criminal...
...service the consumers want, economically inefficient? No! Mr. Pasquale seems to equate efficiency with fairness. He finds the advantage that the large corporations have with respect to adapting to new technology unfair. His concern for the disadvantaged, smaller provider is unfounded. In the world of business, the larger, richer companies have an advantage, but is this unfair? The multi-billion dollar companies like AT&T and Microsoft achieved their corporate success through innovation, determination, and by providing a better product, whether it be long-distance calls or computer operating systems. Why should we punish them for being good...
Besides, how large is the psychological toll? Evolutionary psychology suggests that we're designed to compare our material well-being not so much with some absolute standard but with that of our neighbors. So if our neighbors don't get richer-and if the people on Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous don't get richer--then we shouldn't, in theory, get less happy than we already are. Between 1957 and 1990, per capita income in America more than doubled in real terms. Yet, as the psychologist David Myers notes in The Pursuit of Happiness, the number of Americans...