Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the participants in the conference broke from their discussion of video games and social behavior, medical rehabilitation, and formal education, they retired to the ground floor of the Ed School's Gutman Library to apply theory to practice. Examples of about 20 video games and systems were exhibited for examination and play...
...between the two parties. Looking back on my experience of the past three years. I am struck by the fact it has only rarely been difficult to establish the facts. Yet I have usually found it to be the case although it has the ring of cliche that the behavior complained about is interpreted very differently by each party. In order to establish the facts, I strive to be objective and unprejudiced: I cannot make assumptions about the behavior or the motivations of either party...
However the undergraduates who helped the Faculty Council in its discussion of these issues confidently assured the Council that a clear understanding of what sort of behavior was acceptable would foster an atmosphere of trust more conducive to appropriate individual contact. In the long run they may be correct but I worry about the near future...
...stupid leaflet, tailored to alienate anyone who comes near it, show up for about an hour at the rally, and leave. I saw about four Sparts sitting by themselves in the upper balcony, not participating at all in what was a genuine victory for the genuine working class. This behavior must be part of their "proud history of strike support work at Harvard." In any case, it typifies Spart tactics: opposing authentic democratic movements, exploiting all causes for sectarian purposes...
...long career, his experiments have also led to a remarkably persuasive solution to an old philosophical problem: the relation between the mind and the brain. His model is so sensible that it appears self-evident: mind can rule matter because ideas determine the behavior of the nerve cells which express the idea, much as a rolling wheel determines the motion of the atoms that form...