The real revenge of the nerds.
New York psychiatrist David Forrest believes that the academically gifted but athletically and socially inept people stigmatized as “nerds” may be better adapted than others to a technological, information-oriented civilization. According to his theory, nerds' brains have more highly developed fron...
| Published in: | Psychology Today Vol. 23; p. 20 |
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Sussex Publishers Inc.
June 1989
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