Word: winch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...After getting a $12,000 federal grant to study "the unconscious factors in courtship and mate selection," Dr. Robert F. Winch, a 40-year-old Northwestern University sociologist, explained what he meant. He had a hunch that love sometimes tricked people into marrying the wrong types and said that he proposed to study 25 wedded couples to ascertain their "hidden needs"-unconscious demands that must be satisfied if marriage is to succeed. The doctor, a married man himself, hoped to report in 18 months...