Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Anachoresiphobia, said Dr. W. A. Eggert, chief psychologist of the Lumbermen's Mutual Casualty Co., is responsible for many trucking accidents. It means a reluctance to back up when facing adverse conditions, the doctor explained...
...Gretchen Lombardo, suing for divorce, charged that her husband spent hours teaching their four-year-old daughter to shoot dice. In Newark, N.J., Mrs. Martha Giles got a divorce after testifying that her husband hit her with a live eel. In St. Louis, Mrs. Brigitte Fitzpatrick, wife of-a psychologist, won her divorce after testifying that her husband kept analyzing her in front of their friends...
...conditions as hay fever, asthma and eczema may be like the little boy in Lewis Carroll's jingle ("And beat him when he sneezes: He only does it to annoy, Because he knows it teases"). Children sometimes enjoy their parents' annoyance, according to Allergist Hyman Miller and Psychologist Dorothy W. Baruch, both of Beverly Hills, Calif. Miller and Baruch have finished a study of 90 children with allergies and 53 others without allergies. Last week they reported some of their findings to the American Orthopsychiatric Association's annual meeting in Chicago's Hotel Stevens...
Died. James Rowland Angell, 79, noted psychologist and 14th president of Yale University (1921-37); of cancer; in Hamden, Conn...
...Kursh spoke as a member of a panel discussing the role of specialists in learning problems. The panel, made up of a psychiatrist, a psychologist, a physician, an opthamologist, a reading counsellor, a principal, and a teacher, represented the first time such a group had appeared before a body of lay teachers...