Word: behavior
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...respond to an outbreak of SARS or Ebola or avian flu. "Once a virus hits the ground, there isn't time to contemplate how the public might react," says Galea. "We need to better understand why people react the way they do and how we can positively influence their behavior." The public psychology of emerging diseases is a new field of research, and Galea, 34, is one of its pioneers. A professor of epidemiology at the University of Michigan's School of Public Health, he was studying the psychosocial effects of 9/11 on New Yorkers when he was tapped...
...more centrist students in the way this campaign is likely to—these posters are hardly beyond the pale for a University that prides itself on the open exchange of diverse ideas. Students should have enough backbone to tolerate alternate viewpoints without allowing infantile instincts to govern their behavior. Those who claim an equivalent right of expression in tearing down the posters have a horribly impoverished notion of this right. Free speech is about the free exchange of ideas. It is not about shouting down a speaker, burning a book, or tearing down a legitimately placed poster. Hopefully...
...fiction and reality. When this occurs, it is the hip-hop artists, and not the fans, who should be held responsible. Simply put, the artists are accountable because they are the ones who actively glorify breaking the law in their lyrics and then promote such criminality with their actual behavior. For instance, Snoop Dogg’s notable extracurricular activities include being arrested on charges of being a murder accomplice, being arrested for possession of cocaine, and contributing to the infamous Girls Gone Wild Videos. Clearly, we have an overachiever on our hands. Fear not, however: these artists must...
...Proportion of female college students and graduates who said women on spring-break trips use drinking as an excuse for behavior like public displays of nudity and table dancing...
Keep in mind, first of all, that selfish behavior is warranted in some circumstances. This is one of them. I am not encouraging you to become Harvard’s version of “Mean Girls” villain Regina George, but you should nonetheless be selfish in your blocking decision. (And, by the way, demanding the piece of cake with the biggest frosting flower at your fifth birthday party was also justified...