Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Practically applied in Danger Signal, the Adler-Bottome theory cross-fertilizes the problem novel and the detective story. In a bloodless climax the heroine psychologist (a Czech lecturing in London) extracts inferiority complexes and egocentricities like a dentist tweaking out a rotten tooth. Author Bottome patently exaggerates the omniscience of the psychologist, the tractability of her patients, shows that a novel about psychology and a good psychological novel are by no means the same thing...
...many a U. S. psychologist the letters "ESP" have the effect of a red rag on a bull. "ESP" means extrasensory perception, i.e., telepathy and clairvoyance. Dr. Joseph Banks Rhine of Duke University believes that his card-guessing experiments (TIME, Dec. 10, 1934) prove the existence of ESP. The various criticisms aimed at him boil down to the charge that he has not maintained the rigorous objectivity and experimental control demanded of serious research...
...fixed stars in the creed of orthodox psychologists is a belief that people are born with a certain degree of intelligence and are doomed to go through life with the same I. Q. Strange and heretical to these orthodox ones are reports that have come during the past six years from a little group of psychologists at Iowa's State University in Iowa City. Last week, before a conference of distinguished educators in Manhattan, Iowa's Psychologist George Dinsmore Stoddard laid astounding proofs supporting Iowa's heresy: that an individual's I. Q. can be changed...
...most important investigations in this field was made in Illinois by University of Chicago's Professors Ernest Watson Burgess and Leonard S. Cottrell Jr. (TIME, Feb. 7). Last week a far more searching study* was completed by Stanford University's famed Psychologist Lewis Madison Terman (intelligence tests). Professor Terman and his staff examined 792 middle-class couples (average income: $2,450) in California. He asked them hundreds of questions, took elaborate precautions to preserve their anonymity so they would answer truthfully. Biggest news in his report is a finding that satisfactory sexual mating is not the prime requirement...
...interests of Edward Lee Thorndike, famed psychologist and educational expert of Columbia University's Teachers College, range from the pleasant and unpleasant sound of words to the "goodness of living" in various U. S. cities. Lately, while investigating "the pecuniary rewards of great abilities," Professor Thorndike took a look at the pay of top-notch scientists employed in industry. In American Men of Science he found 72 industrial savants whose names were starred for distinguished research (by vote of their colleagues). He then hunted up as many of their salaries as he could find in the Treasury report...