The Michigan Daily-Tuesday, August 10, 1982-Page 5 PSYCHOLOGISTS SAY THE DANGER COMES FROM TOO MUCH Self-deception may be helpful NTA (AP)- Shakespeare's prescription, their mental health by deceiving themselves about whether they succeed or fail, said Sharon Whittaker- e own self be true," may lead to unhappiness the importance of their work, according to John Har- Bleuler, a sports psychologist at the University of ure, a group of psychologists says. tung, an anthropologist who was not present but British Columbia in Vancouver. d, they argue that a bit of self-deception whose paper was read at the meeting. In studies of professional tennis players, she has the key to success in everything from jobs to THEY MAY convince themselves that they respect found that a player losing a match may assume s. The researchers, who spoke yesterday at a their superiors and that their jobs are important even dominant behavior after winning a point, in the hope of the International Primatological Society, though they are given meaningless chores by those of turning the tide. " n 1A 1upe"or.11AlM ATLA "To thin and failu Instea R could be athletics meeting cautioned against an excess of self-deception. "MODERATE self-deception is helpful in adjusting to culture and people," said James Welles, a psychologist from Los Angeles and an orginator of the psychological concept of self-deception. "The normal person has a slight amount of self- deception, just as he has a slight amount of paranoia or mania," Welles said. "The danger of self- deception is excess." People trapped in unpleasant jobs often maintain superiors. Welles said many animals deceive other members of their species but that humans are the only animals to engage in self-deception. "Self-deception is the distinctive feature of humans," he said. Daniel Krakauer, a New York zoologist, was more cautious, saying only, "Homo sapiens is the most self-deceived of any species." ATHLETES ENGAGE in very subtle forms of self- deception, and that may be a determining factor in The player is often unaware of it, but slight changes in stance, handling of the racket or facial expression will be picked up by an opponent. Welles said self-deception taken to excess may be the cause of social ills. "When you have a philosophy, you tend to gather data that confirm it" and ignore other data, Welles said. Eventually, the philosophy begins to look decep- tively like the absolute truth. PLO accepts U.S. peace plan; shelling continues (Continued from Page 1) bombing runs lasting more than three hours, and gunboat artillery pounded Palestinian positions in west Beirut, along the Mediterranean coast, and in the Syrian-controlled hills near Tar- shish, 19 miles east of the capital, Lebanese and Palestinian sources said. The bombardments on the crumbling Lebanese capital were concentrated on the coastal Ouzai neighborhood, the southern Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra, Chatila and Burj Al Brajneh, and the central Arab university and stadium areas - where most of an estimated 6,000 Palestinian guerrillas are holed up. The attacks apparently were aimed at pressuring PLO guerrillas to evacuate west Beirut - under siege by Israeli forces who invaded Lebanon June 6. Ski Celestial *AP Photo As seen from a National Guard helicopter on maneuvers near Camp Grayling in Michigan, the simple act of water skiing becomes what appears to be a comet in the night sky. Number of women in office has tripled in seven years (Continued from Page 3) for the American Woman and Politics at Rutgers University, agrees. "Women who get nominated have about the same chance of winning as men," she says. For a long time, a woman could land a nomination only if the situation called for a sacrificial lamb, someone to run against an unbeatable male. That time, says Mandel, is in the past. WOMEN ARE voting in larger num- bers than before-and in larger percen- tages than men-another factor com- batting the bias against women can- didates. Women got the vote on Aug. 18, 1920, but many women who were adults then never got the voting habit. In 1980, however, the Census Bureau reports, a fractionally higher percentage of women than men voted. But what's happening can hardly be called a women's revolution. It will be a long time before women hold office in proportion to their num- bers in society. Turnover is slow in politics; incumbents win most elec- tions, and most incumbents are men.' THE 1982 round of primaries not yet over, it is too early to know how many women are running for Congress or state or legislative seats. However, Rep. Millicent Fenwick, a Republican, is favored to win her race for a Senate seat from New Jersey and in Missouri Harriet Woods, a state senator, is the leader in the race for the Democratic nomination to oppose Republican Sen. John Danforth. If either wins, the number of women in the Senate will go beyond two for the first time in history. Sen. Paula Hawkins (R-Fla.), elected in 1980, and Nancy Kassenbaum (R-Kan.), elected in 1978, were the first women to enter the Senate without having first inherited their congressional seats from a husband who had died in office. 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