Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...four-hour interviews with 20 volunteers who had been in treatment with a total of 47 different therapists representing a range of schools from Gestalt and group to classical psychoanalysis. "Not one of these experiences," Langs writes, "seems to have been free of self-contradictory, unrealistic, out-of-control behaviors and interventions on the part of the therapist. Using rather gross measures, one might say that in general the therapists were responsible for three times as many incidents of overtly inappropriate behavior as their patients...
...release, despite the prominent role Damascus played in securing the freedom of the TWA hijack victims. A senior State Department official may also have pointed indirectly to Iran when he said the U.S. had offered to help ease the isolation of countries "now outside the pale of international behavior" if the hostages were returned...
...after their car became entangled in barbed wire. But they were released without harm when a Soviet officer arrived. After Weinberger spoke, other officials in Washington toned down his account. A senior American officer in West Germany told TIME, "It was not a hostile situation and involved rather reasonable behavior on both sides...
...closely monitoring quake zones, they hope to find subtle clues that will lead to more precise and reliable forecasts. Keiiti Aki, a geophysicist at the University of Southern California, has designed a detailed computer model that combines such varied earthquake signposts as seismic anomalies, strange animal behavior, changes in the water table and peculiar bulges along the terrain...
...year study by Editor James Wall of the Chicago-based Christian Century and a panel including communications officials from Episcopal, Lutheran, Presbyterian and United Methodist churches and the United Church of Christ. The group concluded that research shows an "undeniable" correlation between media violence and aggressive behavior. Among its recommendations: mandatory ratings and descriptions of violent content in program promotion, lockboxes for cable installations so parents can control viewing, and separate channels for cable systems that now mix general fare with R- or X-rated films...