Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Littauer Professor of Political Economy Thomas C. Schelling has quit smoking four times, and now, as director of the Kennedy School's Institute for the Study of Smoking Behavior and Policy, Schelling has been working to understand how smoking laws affect people's willingness to quit the tobacco habit, as well as learn why people start and stop smoking in the first place...
FREUD coined a now-popular term, "anal-retentiveness," that means more and more to me while I'm at Harvard. I'm not a psychologist, so I have no idea if I use the phrase correctly, but lately I notice a preponderance of such behavior...
Ignorant of the clinical definition of anal-retentive behavior, I use my own term--"anality." It also uses less syllables. Anality shows up often here at Harvard, and it's making me tense...
...Such behavior has always bothered me, but I could never catagorize it before. Now with the term "anality" in hand, I hope I can identify it more easily, seek it out, and destroy it expeditiously. That would make me less tense...
...Sometimes a student is besotted with a particular idea," says Stone, who advises Organizational Behavior special concentrators...