Word: thaler
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...violent as the Guyana group was in its last days, but many of them share a number of unusual characteristics. Social scientists who have studied these groups agree that most cult members are in some sort of emotional trouble before they join. Says Dr. Margaret Thaler Singer, a psychologist at Berkeley: "About one-third are very psychologically distressed people. The other two-thirds are relatively average people, but in a period of depression, gloom, being at loose ends." Such people are vulnerable to well-planned recruitment techniques. These usually involve displays of effusive affection and understanding, or "love bombing...
...stand to defend her statements. To determine if Patty is capable of testifying, Judge Carter appointed four experts to examine the celebrated prisoner: Psychiatrists Seymour Pollack of the University of Southern California, Donald T. Lund of Stanford University, Louis J. West of U.C.L.A., and Psychologist Margaret Thaler Singer of the University of California at Berkeley...
Pierson went ahead 12-7 in the second quarter, but Winthrop notched the game winner on the last play of the first half as Rich Brody threw two yards to Rod Thaler...
...Kagan committee will then look for correlations between such factors as a student's class or concentration and his opinion on coed housing. They will try to find out "whether coed housing will change the composition of the Harvard houses," Joseph J. Thaler '70, a member of the committee, said since students will probably be given the choice of living in a coed or all-male house...