Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...combination of shorter prison sentences and other post-release measures. Finally, for those now imprison and those whose crimes are so serious that they require incarceration, "good time" laws can shorten the duration of prison sentences and encourage rehabilitation. Such laws provide early release on parole for good behavior in prison with the possibility of reimprisonment for violation of the terms of parole. They are by no means universal or sufficient in scope and should be enacted nation wide...
...talker's face, body and voice. In one of Ekman's experiments, all 50 members of a group of volunteers learned to pick up revealing microexpressions as brief as one twenty-fourth of a second. "Liars," he says, "usually do not monitor, control and disguise all of their behavior." Ekman's lessons come with one large caveat: even the best liar catchers cannot be right 100% of the time. The ear tugger, the evasive rambler and the fellow who refuses to look you in the eye may be lying, but they may instead be fidgety truth tellers who are afraid...
...Next Time, unlike Soul On Ice, is not concerned with history or politics but rather with how it feels to be an outsider, to be Black in a white world. Baldwin believed you can't force society to change, that you have to change attitudes before you can change behavior. For this commitment to interracial brotherhood. Baldwin won Cleaver's decision and the label of "Pussycat" to Cleaver's self-proclaimed "Tiger...
...engage in sexual congress with a group of attractive young women. They spy on the girls in the shower or while they are undressing for bed, start a food fight or something equally uplifting, crack a lot of dirty jokes, indulge in all sorts of crude and sometimes amusing behavior, and in the end triumph over the forces of stuffy convention, such as parents, policemen, school authorities and almost anybody else over...
Farley is now talking about setting up special therapy for Type Ts that would combine a search for socially approved outlets with some behavior modification to change people from T-minus tracks to T-plus ones. "This country, in order to survive this century and beyond, needs enormous levels of creativity," says Farley. "The interesting thing is that the destructive forces-crime, drinking and driving--arise from the same group who could be the most creative...