Word: behaviorism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...entitled "The Original Nature of Man; the Genes of the Mind", and together with his second talk next week, which will discuss environment, forms an introduction to the series. All ten lectures are designed to cover the field of "Human Nature and Human institutions", with emphasis on the social behavior...
Even the Mayor's close friends became alarmed by his behavior. They knew that some reporters had been unfair to him, that most had not. They well knew his terrible-tempered propensity for bulldozing his official subordinates, screaming and cursing at his office force. They took it. The press didn't. Fortnight ago the climax came...
TIME, Aug. 24, p. 17, referring to the disgraceful behavior of organized labor in Detroit, relates an episode as follows: . . . a foreman asked a machine operator to move a box which was blocking the aisle. Said the operator: "Hell no, move it yourself." The foreman had to get a maintenance man to move the box. While the box was being moved the machine operator declaimed for 45 minutes on his "rights...
...highly readable pages they reach two extremely important conclusions: 1) "idealism, consistency and strength" have characterized the foreign policy of Roosevelt, Hull and Sumner Welles in the past three years; 2) together with Britain, the U.S. has laid down firmly "a pattern of post-war aspirations and behavior" which should result in a fair and decent peace...
...workers are isolated and lonely amid impersonal throngs. The number of unmarried men, socially and biologically at loose ends, increases toward a city's core. And as urbanization increases, the group control of a homogeneous society-symbolized by the U.S. back fence-disappears. Standards of group and personal behavior break down together when the anonymous city dweller has the "liberty" to drift into unconventionality and excess which are frequently the forerunners of mental crackup...