Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...farmers and tradespeople in Belgium take mental patients into their homes and turn their whole town into a haven for malades? Clue: Money is not the answer. (See BEHAVIOR, "A Town for Outpatients.") - Why do U.S. astronauts feel so strongly about open communication circuits from orbiting spacecraft to earth, particularly when they are ill? (See SCIENCE, "A Spectacular Step Toward Lunar Landing...
...some of Rosenthal's most interesting data indicates that even if students in less advanced tracks show exceptional ability, teachers often refuse to recognize it or reward it, and instead find fault with the student's behavior, or attitude, or something. In this kind of environment, infusion of books and visual aids can hardly produce much effect on the achievement of disadvantaged students...
This serious version of Candid Camera was one of several similar experiments which have been organized recently by Philip Zimbardo, 35, a New York born psychologist now at Stanford University. His tentative conclusion is that in offices, schools and streets, a big-city feeling of personal anonymity encourages destructive behavior. It is discouraged by a sense of community-an atmosphere in which vandals feel that anyone watching disapproves of what they are doing. To check his theory, Zimbardo parked a derelict car in a middle-class neighborhood of suburban Palo Alto, California. During three days of observation, he reports...
Reason for Optimism. Hong Kong's ultimate fate depends on two unpredictable factors: the behavior of its neighbor, Red China and, to a lesser degree, the import policies of its best customers, the U.S. and Britain...
...spiteful vandalism also accounts for an increasing number of broken phones. Teen-agers rip out wires or steal receivers and dials just for perverse fun or an adolescent sign of protest. Some psychologists see similarities between the wrecking of telephones and the destruction of school property or cars (see BEHAVIOR). Such acts are believed to be caused, in part, by what psychologists call "the feeling of anonymity" that stimulates teen-agers and others to destroy property...