Word: behavior
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Equally terrifying is the behavior of some IDF officers once the Phalangists had gone into the camps. Just hours after the attack began. Brig Gen. Amos Yaron, the Israeli division commander in Beirut, was informed by one of his men that something was amiss. He did nothing. Two hours later, a Phalangist commander briefed a group of Israelis, including Yaron, that 300 people had been killed. Yaron simply warned the commander to cease such actions and left it at that. The massacre continued for two more days before the IDF put a stop...
Still, consistency can be a bona fide virtue, if a small one. Consistency in public life. Consistency in private. The consistency of principle, of philosophy, habit, appearance, of behavior toward subordinates, lovers and friends. To know where a leader stands is a major test of his leadership. That, and to measure where someone stands against the spot he swore to stand on, so as to determine if the person is dependable, reliable. Banks and dogs share this virtue...
...fails to point out that a group of individuals with exactly the same syndrome raised in the United States, also as girls, at puberty retained their female gender identity! If anything, this is "stunning confirmation" of the powerful effect of the social and cultural environment in influencing human behavior. Numerous other problems with the Dominican study have been pointed out (R. R. Rubin, J. M. Reinisch and R. F. Haskett, Science 211, 1318, 1981). This is only one example of the selective nature of Konner's evidence...
...perhaps more importantly, Konner falls into the "fallacy of biological determinism," so aptly termed by Professor Richard Lewontin several years ago (The Sciences March/April, 1976). That is, even if there were substantial evidence that male-female roles or any human social behavior was influenced by our biology, this would not tell us anything about how much behavior could be changed. As Ashley Montage points out in his book Learning Non-Aggression, which describes a number of societies where aggression is minimal. "Human beings can learn virtually anything. Among other things they can learn to be virtually unaggressive." And even Konner...
...elderly, the indigent and the handicapped. His commitment is incontrovertible. So why has he given up teaching to gab with Phyllis Diller about her facelifts? "I feel strongly that this is the way to enlighten people," Cottle insists. "I'm trying to preserve my inquiry into human behavior through new media." Although Up Close is taped in Los Angeles or New York City, Cottle still lives in Brookline, Mass., with his wife of 19 years and their three children, and maintains a small private practice. He is currently working with the Harvard Medical School on a study...