Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Other sections this week also offer their share of criticism. BEHAVIOR gives little more than a passing grade to a University of California professor's report on genetically determined differences in intelligence. TELEVISION questions the networks' handling of their lively new "magazine" shows. BUSINESS examines the reasons for black frustrations in Detroit auto plants and deplores the violent response of mindless black militants. WORLD discusses the Soviet Union's foreign-policy problems and finds that the Russians have very little room for maneuver. PRESS turns the writer-critic relationship completely around with a critical appraisal of Clive...
...Sociologists Simon and Gagnon have stretched behaviorism to its absurd limits with the assertion that sexuality in man is a learned behavior pattern. It is a sad comment on the limiting influences of specialization in any field when a sociologist tries to refute such a basic biological tenet as evolution and natural selection. For behavior patterns and their modification possibilities through learning are fixed in the genes of species, consequently modified but not eradicated in individual development. Just as ethologists are beginning to find that man has more instinct-caused behavior than we thought, Simon and Gagnon rush...
...continues to evolve, but until some new species is formed, his behavior and physiology will remain basically the same as it was when the species emerged from its primordial ancestors. Man is more than a clever ape, but learning is not the only influence upon his way of behaving...
...This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeit of our own behavior, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars; as if we were villains on necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on. An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star! My father compounded with my mother under...
...could not blunt the thrust of Diamond's testimony about murder in a trance. A far-out tale? Perhaps. A grave problem of determining mental health in criminal trials is that expert witnesses are almost always available to back up either prosecution or defense with their testimony (see BEHAVIOR). After two more psychologists declared that Sirhan suffers from grave mental disorders, avuncular Attorney Grant Cooper rested for the defense. And though a handwriting expert called by the prosecution saw no evidence that Sirhan's diary had been written under the mirror's hypnotic influence, even the star...