Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rhine is right, the implications are immediate that much that has been taught by the orthodox psychologist is bunk...
...Rhine at Duke has come under the influence of venerable, opinionated Psychologist William McDougall, who once belonged to a "dubious" society for psychic research. Dr. McDougall and Dr. Rhine are among the few scientists who still believe in Lamarckism (inheritance of acquired characteristics...
Freshman Worries, Psychologist James Page of the University of Rochester, investigating the worries of male & female university freshmen, found that girls worried mainly over whether they were popular, that boys were afraid of being underweight, of not taking sufficient interest in their work, of not being able to meet their responsibilities or find financial security after graduation, of having to support their parents in old age. Two percent of the boys and 4% of the girls feared going insane. Three percent of the boys, none of the girls feared they were adopted children. About 10% in each sex were afraid...
...microbe hunters are flute-playing, Einstein-disputing Professor Dayton C. Miller of Cleveland's Case School of Applied Science, and Iowa State University's dapper, white-haired Dean Emeritus Carl Emil Seashore. While Physicist Miller has succeeded in taking up where the doughty von Helmholtz left off, Psychologist Seashore has spent a lifetime on the beach of music's ocean brooding over, and trying to remedy, the mathematical inaccuracies of long-haired musicians. From spry, 72-year-old Seashore's laboratory have come rhythm meters to test the sense of rhythm, charts showing how often great...
...Science No. 1, however, was contributed by Columbia University's Dr. Gregory S. Razran, reporting results of a year's experiment at a meeting of the American Psychological Association in Manhattan. Subject: the effects of free lunch on various forms of artistic appreciation (see p. 54). Psychologist Razran's conclusions indicated that with enough free lunch "you can practically make an individual like anything." He admitted that it took one subject five lunches before she liked the piano music of Modernist Aaron Copland. "But she did come to like it, and after she did, gave all sorts...