Word: behaviorism
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...quit smoking and heed preventive medical advice. The company, which also has a program designed to encourage healthy habits in employees' children, has spent about $130 million on wellness so far, much of that in the form of cash rewards of up to $300 per employee annually for good behavior. Doris Gonzalez, 50, a senior program manager in corporate affairs at IBM's Armonk, N.Y., headquarters, now walks 20 minutes a day, does aerobics regularly and monitors her daily fat and calorie intake with the help of an online tracking system. Her small daughter is in the children's program...
...slump may also prompt fraudsters to rationalize their behavior. According to a survey published in February by British insurer RSA, 3% of adult Britons said hard economic times made committing insurance fraud more acceptable. We're seeing that already: the number of fraudulent claims rose 17% in the U.K. last year, with commercial claims accounting for a third of their value. (See pictures of the financial crisis in London...
...County uses the Anti-Defamation League's No Place for Hate program, which integrates lessons about diversity into the school curriculum and makes students sign a pledge of respect. But ADL regional director Bill Nigut says the anti-hate program does not involve teacher and student training about inappropriate behavior and is not designed to protect students from harm. (Read about teen suicide pills...
...Bullying isn't swine flu," Nigut said. "It's not some new virus that's come out of nowhere. It's something that has been around at least since I was in school. But back then, we didn't look at it as destructive behavior. Now we know that bullying has strong repercussions, and more and more schools know they need to address the problem...
...spot the foreign idealists masquerading as, say, tourists or teachers, who have made it their mission to change Burma. They whisper about regime change and seethe with political indignation. They talk about signature campaigns or the latest effort to get foreign parliamentarians to condemn the Burmese regime's odious behavior...