Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...animals can send out such unconscious messages, do humans have the same skills? Perhaps, say some researchers. One tantalizing clue comes from "menstrual synchrony," the common phenomenon of women who are close friends, or live together. In 1971 University of Chicago Psychologist Martha McClintock, then at Harvard, tested 135 women and showed that the menstrual cycles of friends and roommates moved from an average of 8.5 days apart to less than 5 days during a school year...
...Psychologist Michael Russell thinks the synchronizing factor is odor. In an experiment at San Francisco State University, Russell relied on a colleague named Genevieve, who had a regular 28-day cycle, did not shave under her arms and never used deodorant. He dabbed what he delicately called "Essence of Genevieve" on the lips of five female volunteers three times a week. After four months, he found that the volunteers converged from an average of 9.3 days apart in their cycles to 3.4 days, and four of the women synchronized to within one day of Genevieve's cycle. A control...
...theory is based largely on work with laboratory animals. At the University of Vermont College of Medicine, Pharmacologist Lester Soyka and Psychologist Justin Joffe have been administering methadone to male rats a few days before letting them mate with drug "clean" females. Among the adverse effects on the offspring: small litter size, low birth weights and excessive number of deaths among the newborn. Preliminary experiments with morphine, caffeine and the painkiller propoxyphene (Darvon) produced similar patterns...
Ethan Gologor is a psychologist and a tennis player, so it is no surprise when he asserts that "all sports are psychological, but some are more psychological than others. And tennis is the most." Assuming that his readers have the basic tennis skills (no amount of "inner" therapy will compensate for their absence), the doctor outlines the problems of this heady game...
...that drama unfolds, the only verifiable fact is that lines are forming, and anyone reluctant to join may not get his share. Says Detroit Psychologist Philip Owen: "If an individual sees a line, he's apt to get into it, even if he doesn't know what it's for." Social pressures against overbuying disappear; everyone can hoard in good conscience.' One refrain dates back to World War II: "I'm just stocking up before the hoarders get here...