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More than 150 people packed into the Fong Auditorium yesterday evening to listen to psychology professor Stephen Pinker explain that the process of writing is in fact an exercise in psychology. Pinker gave his speech—“Writing as Psychology??—to celebrate the release of the 2006-2007 issue of “Exposé: Essays from the Expository Writing Program.” Pinker stressed the importance of conciseness while highlighting former Tufts President Jean Mayer’s 1982 statement, “Men with guns never starve...
...wonder after reading “Arlington Park” whether the author, Rachel Cusk, is a penetrating analyst of human psychology??or just an embittered feminist.Whichever category Cusk falls into, her newest novel is certainly perceptive. It is a surprisingly philosophical book in which everyday characters in an everyday setting hint at being deeply symbolic—though it’s difficult to discern what they’re supposed to symbolize.“Arlington Park” follows the lives of five young British housewives through the course of one rainy day and culminates...
...taped the show, adding that he was “pretty nervous beforehand.” Most of the discussion focused on Pinker’s 2002 book “The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature”—a book on evolutionary psychology??as Pinker struggled to explain his beliefs about brain function while Colbert joked and interrupted him. Colbert also poked fun at Pinker’s 2003 move from MIT to Harvard. “You were at MIT first then went to Harvard? That’s like...
...teaching here in 1960 and remained on the faculty for the rest of his life. Stone devoted much of his research to studying interpersonal and group dynamics. At Harvard, he taught Psychology 1501, “Social Psychology of Organizations” and Psychology 1504, “Positive Psychology??—a course he developed and led for several years before handing it off to his protégé, Lecturer on Psychology Tal Ben-Shahar ’96.Internationally, Stone is known for the creation of a software system called the General Inquirer, which performs...
...group recently launched by Samuel E. Siner ’09, has been met with eager response from the student body, with 66 students replying within a week to e-mails sent out over house lists describing the group. Siner, who took both Psychology 1504, “Positive Psychology?? and Psychology 1508, “The Psychology of Leadership,” with Ben-Shahar this semester, said he was motivated to start the group by his experience in the courses. “We hope to integrate the effects of Positive Psychology into the campus itself...