Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...characters ahead of it. In a recent interview, Penn told the L.A. Reader he wanted to make a "popcorn" movie after the commercial failure of his Four Friends, but what's emerged was an unhappy hybrid of character and action. At unexpected moments, in well-observed snatches of behavior and individual shots, just enough character is conveyed and just enough emotional content to keep the audience aware of something more than the standard cloak-and-dagger thriller. And the plot does have a few well-chosen twists before it goes on cruise control and coasts to an unsatisfying climax...
...Whatever you call it, I cannot deny Stallone's drawing power nor can I blame the people who froze with me in order to see his hulking physique. For better or worse, the former porn star has created a myth that exerts a definite influence over the attitudes and behavior patterns of most viewers...
...personal history of most smokers is rich with the availability and advocacy of cigarettes. Billions of dollars have been spent by the tobacco companies over the past 60 years to modify the behavior of consumers. In fact, the popular cigarette slogan, "I'd walk a mile for a Camel," was written by the first American behaviorist, John B. Watson, who had lost his professorship at Johns Hopkins and ended up as an advertising executive at J. Walter Thompson in New York...
...seems that the behaviorist position would lead us to find for the plaintiff. After all, the tobacco companies knew that cigarettes were strong, reinforcers for many people yet still sold them. But not so fast. What about the behavior of the tobacco companies...
TOBACCO COMPANIES are controlled by environmental contingencies just as surely as individual smokers are. Society has made reinforcement for these companies (i.e., profits) contingent on cigarette-selling behavior. Unfortunately, people die as a result. But do the tobacco companies have a "choice"? The behaviorist says...