Word: mcclelland
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Actual involvement with people who have personality problems gives a researcher a vital sensitivity to the nature of those problems, since the real significance of abstract character traits only comes alive in direct encounters between people. As David McClelland, professor of Psychology, says, "Clinical psychology helps keep personality psychology honest. It keeps psychologists' noses buried in real, live people instead of abstractions, pigeons and tests...
ANOTHER sign of the rockiness of the marriage between research and practical work in Harvard's clinical program was the unsuccessful ten-year search for a person with top clinical and research credentials to lead the program. McClelland, then a teacher in the program, conducted the frustrating search. Two of his choices were turned down by President Pusey's ad hoc committee on the appointment. Although both men were fine clinicians and good scholars, their research credentials did not satisfy the President's committee. Finally in 1966 McClelland and the committee agreed on Professor Norman Garmizey of the University...
...lineup last week: For Gray?Republicans Marlow Cook, Hiram Fong, Edward Gurney, Roman Hruska, Hugh Scott, Strom Thurmond and Democrat James Eastland. Against Gray?Democrats Birch Bayh, Quentin Burdick, Robert Byrd, Sam Ervin, Philip Hart, Edward Kennedy and John Tunney. Undecided?Republican Charles Mathias and Democrat John McClelland...
Another symbol, the letter n, which is often borrowed from mathematical formulas by social scientists, is equally hallucinogenic. It stands for the word need. Thus Harvard Psychologist David McClelland, for one, writes n Ach when he wants only to convey a person's need to achieve great things, or n Aff to express the urge to affiliate with or belong to a group. Some of his colleagues, Andreski writes, must in turn be moved by n Bam, the need to bamboozle...
...professor of Government; Davia C. Kmsey, assistant professor of Education; Ernst Kitzinger, Porter University Professor; Klaus-Friedrich Koch, assistant professor of Social Anthropology; Rustam Z. Kothavala, director, Harvard Science Center, lecturer on Geology; Harry Levin, Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature; Maynard Mack Jr., assistant professor of English; David C. McClelland, professor of Psychology...