Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...progress the nation has made in the nearly 30 years since the birth of the American gay rights movement in 1969, there remains a large and growing homophobia from coast to coast. According to a recent Gallup poll, 59 percent of Americans believe homosexual behavior is morally wrong. And last summer, Senate Majority Trent Lott (R-Miss.) compared homosexuals to Kleptomaniacs and alcoholics...
...began by summarizing journal articles and eventually worked with Laibson to plan and develop a computer program that simulates the economic behavior of populations...
Tobacman says this interest in understanding economic behavior is one of the reasons he is heading to Indonesia. He plans to spend at least part of his year studying a group of banks that is particularly responsive to its community and demonstrates an excellent knowledge of community behavior patterns...
...village banks are interesting for how they very carefully design their programs with the knowledge of human behavior and psychology," he says. "People who work in the banks are very in touch with the people who take loans...
Tobacman adds that the village banks' effort to understand their customers' behavior is similar to Laibson's effort to model economic behavior...