Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...explanation: city folks hear more about the world's troubles-a reason given by many a police for reg turning to the church. According to the poll, 31% of the people listen to church services on the radio. >In the Survey Graphic, James Henry Leuba, retired Bryn Mawr psychologist, published results of a religious sampling of names in Who's Who in America, grouped as: 1) bankers, 2) other businessmen, 3) lawyers, 4) writers. Psychologist Leuba's conclusions from replies to his statements of belief...
Even so, writers appeared to be more religious than scientists. Psychologist Leuba investigated 23,000 scientists in 1933, concluded that only 30% believed in God and 33% believed in immortality...
...Rockefeller General Education Board helped by building for the Institute a fine five-story Georgian home and by granting $2,500,000 for ten years' running expenses.* Soon there moved into this structure an odd assortment of men, women and beasts. Famed Child Psychologist Arnold Gesell brought a children's clinic for studying infant feeding and other phases of moppets' development. Psychobiologist Robert Mearns Yerkes brought his famed apes, clapped them into a huge cage atop one wing of the building and continued to study ape behavior. Psychiatrists brought a group of deranged men & women, locked them...
Leader of this motley crew now is 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...
Last week another experiment aptly illustrating the frustration-aggression theory was reported in the Harvard Educational Review by University of Iowa's famed Psychologist Kurt Lewin. In the University's Child Welfare Station, research workers formed two clubs of boys & girls about ten years old, set them to work making masks. One was a "democratic" group, with an adult leader who let the youngsters decide how to work, the other "autocratic," with a leader who gave orders and criticism without reasons. Observers' findings...