Keyword Results ( "Psychology" )

1. Risky Business

Magazine Archives Article : March/April 2008

The evolutionary psychologists Leda Cosmides and John Tooby explain why, when it comes to money, men are anything but rational.

2. Hidden Agendas

Magazine Archives Article : Winter 2007

A Harvard test probes the mind in an attempt to learn what's in our hearts. But does it work?

3. Ahead of the Curve

Magazine Archives Article : May/June 2007

Evolutionary psychologist Steven Gaulin may be on to a juicy new theory: Ample mothers make bigger-brained babies.

4. Fear Fighter

Magazine Archives Article : September / October 2007

In her new book, The Paranoia Switch: How Terror Rewires Our Brains and Reshapes Our Behavior--And How We Can Reclaim Our Courage, longtime Harvard Medical School psychologist Martha Stout diagnoses Americans as a traumatized populace. Are we a nation of scaredy-cats?

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1. Summing Up

Magazine Archives Article : March/April 2008

The Simple Facts about the Hollywood Issue of 02138.

2. Al Franken. Seriously.

Magazine Archives Article : March/April 2008

The SNL scribe toiled in the trenches of late-night comedy until he became the Democrats’ answer to right-wing media. Now Al Franken wants not just your laughter, but also your vote. Why is this man running?.

3. Drew Faust Gets Rejected

Editorial Blogs Posting : Shots in the Dark : 05/21/2007

Scientist Jeremy Bloxham has turned down the FAS deanship.

4. A Few God Men

Magazine Archives Article : May/June 2007

Phillip E. Johnson went to Harvard, opposed the Vietnam War, and taught at Berkeley. But, along with two college peers, Johnson has also devoted his life to promoting intelligent design. The true story of three former liberals and their fight to put God back in our schools.

5. Rejection-Letter Therapy

Editorial Blogs Posting : Shots in the Dark : 04/10/2007

Harvard rejected 91% of applicants to its incoming freshman class. Now some of them are fighting back.

6. When Dodo Met Dodo

Magazine Archives Article : Winter 2007

Marine biologist-turned-filmmaker Randy Olson lampoons former colleagues in his new documentary about evolution. The humor carries a disquieting message: scientists are ceding the intellectual high ground.

7. The Z-List is the New A-List

Magazine Archives Article : Premier Issue

Pulitzer Prize-winner Daniel Golden’s analysis of Harvard admissions reveals both embarrassment and riches: The children of big-donor alums are systematically given preference over legacy offspring of lesser means.

8. William Libby, 80

Tribe Posting : Lives : 07/28/2006

Professor of psychology at the University of Windsor from 1970 to 1991.

9. Bert Kaplan, 87

Tribe Posting : Lives : 07/22/2006

Professor of psychology and member of the founding faculty at the University of California, Santa Cruz; helped found the university’s graduate program in the history of consciousness; stationed in Okinawa to treat soldiers for battle fatigue during World War II.

10. Jay Kaplan, 78

Tribe Posting : Lives : 07/09/2006

Supervisor and Chief of Psychological Services at the Rhode Island Juvenile Diagnostic Center; previously worked under Mental Health Services for Children and the Department for Children, Youth and Families; on the Executive Board of the East Bay Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union; chairman of the Rhode Island Juvenile Justice Project ACLU from 1972 to 1973.

11. Sally L. Howes, 76

Tribe Posting : Lives : 06/14/2006

Taught in the Holyoke school system; worked as the administrative assistant for the National Felt Company of Easthampton.

12. Morris Stein, 84

Tribe Posting : Lives : 05/28/2006

Professor Emeritus at New York University, oversaw the doctoral program in Social Psychology.