Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people kill, and what can we do to stop them? Too often, we appeal to unseen forces to explain behavior. A psychiatrist on one of the local news shows suggested that the Tylenol murderer acted out of "feelings of alienation and frustration and great hostility." But that explains nothing. Why does he (or she) feel "alienated" or "frustrated" or "hostile?" The causes of these pseudo-causes lie outside the person, in the environment. And it is the environment we must change if we are to change the individual's behavior...
Crime and other misbehavior are the most apparent results of the demise of the small community. Anonymity breeds crime. We ignore the censure of strangers and often fear to rebuke the behavior of those we don't know...
...probability of contraction is related to how many partners you have and who they are," he said "It's unrealistic to believe people may change their sexual behavior in a significant way, so this disease will go unchecked...
...proportionality. When three students receive permanent blots on their records and have their extracurriculars taken away from them merely for locking friends in their room, one has to wonder if "the punishment fits the crime." The Ad Board seems to have no tolerance at all for boisterous "college-like" behavior; it appears that the basic expectation is that students conduct themselves like miniature professors. This expectation is not fair, and the structure of the Ad Board is unfair as well. It is high time that students, the victims of this injustice, start to complain so that future classes...
...that one of the world'sforemost experts on social organization would becoming to Cambridge in an unprecedented jointappointment by the Psychology and Social RelationsDepartment and the Business School. R. J. Hackman,currently a professor at Yale University, isconsidered to be one of the world's foremostexperts on small group behavior. At the B-School,Hackman will be able to study the "real lifesituations" Bales considers so important. "It's astep in the right direction; it's a step towardintegration," says the elder professor...