Medicine: Human Interests

From time to time the newspaper colyumists, in the interest of humor, have published fragments of conversation heard in passing by their contributors. Several years ago the psychologist, Henry T. Moore, analyzed a number of such conversations heard in various places, and found that men converse frequently about business, money, amusements, whereas women seem to be primarily concerned with clothes and decoration.

Recently M. H. Landis and H. E. Burtt, psychologists at the Ohio State University in Columbus, reported to the Journal of Comparative Psychology the results of a similar analysis made on...

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