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Show People in Love Not Nearly So Happy as They Should Be New York. In love, marriage, mar-riage, business and other close human relations, the social machinery functions with only 25 per cent efficiency, effi-ciency, Dr. John Levy of the Brooklyn Child Guidance Centre clinic told the Psychologists' Psy-chologists' League forum here. Even men and women in love do not get along together as they should. The joys from human contacts con-tacts are only about a third as great as they might be, due to the backward back-ward development of human emotions, emo-tions, Dr. Levy said. "In varying degrees, the two people peo-ple in contact have a heck of a time," he said. "They are either sitting down hard on their feelings or they are worrying, bickering, or just plain scrapping. I know no two people, married or unmarried, who come anywhere near realizing the full richness of personal relationships." rela-tionships." Heavy Loss to Business. The financial loss to business from this emotional abrasive in the machinery ma-chinery of personal contacts is tremendous, tre-mendous, Dr. Levy told his audience. audi-ence. "Business tries to be 100 per cent perfect in its impersonal activities, but accepts a 25 per cent standard in its methods of handling human beings. "Millions of dollars are spent by the automotive industry to keep its bookkeeping system up to date, but hardly a penny to understand and modernize the human machinery upon which all other aspects of its operations depend for success." The backwardness of business in this respect is due largely to lack of understanding of the emotional satisfactions men get from their jobs, Dr. Levy believes. It is as difficult for the business executive to see his own status as "stern father" fath-er" in his strict dealings with his striking employees as it is for the employees to see their protesting behavior as a resentment against an authoritative parent The eternal triangle is seen in a new light as a nervous disease affecting af-fecting not one individual but three in their relationships to each other through the new 'science of "Soci-ometry," "Soci-ometry," described to the meeting by Dr. J. L. Moreno, of Beacon, N. Y. The function of this new science is to break down gradually the misunderstandings and fears of the groups studied. |