Word: behaviorism
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...Research has shown that diet habits students form today will be highly influential on their behavior for the rest of their lives, which underscores the urgent need to end this information vacuum. HUDS has noted that it will still display nutritional information in the dining hall kiosks and online, but what busy student could be bothered to search the Internet when trying to decide how many samosas to grab...
...Asian population,” she told the council members. Mary Wong, the executive director of the council, said that the report on mental health was compiled in response to a discussion that began in September 2007, when members wanted to explore whether at-risk youths were exhibiting unhealthy behavior because they lived in environments that were not supportive. But Wong and Cambridge City Council member Kenneth E. Reeves ’72 expressed uneasiness with the way the findings were presented, proposing that the racial categories used in the survey could obscure its results. Reeves also said that...
...According to a paper published in this month's Journal of Sports Economics, entitled "Pigskins and Politics: Linking Expressive Behavior and Voting," residents that show overt support for their favorite college football team, in the form of displays like flags on the front yard, are nearly twice as likely as non-fanatics to hit the polls on Election Day. To reach this conclusion, a group of economists at Auburn University used that football-fueled college town as a laboratory. The researchers trolled a county database to find the addresses for nearly 4,000 residences in Auburn, and then last September...
...Laband and his crew crunched the numbers, and found that those with the football paraphernalia were almost twice as likely to vote. "I was very, very surprised," Laband says. Up to this point, most behavioral research has focused on the correlation between the likelihood of voting and displays of political expression - membership in a party, or "Vote Smith for Congress" signs on the porch. "These results show that different kinds of expressive behavior, voting and football fandom, are linked somehow, even if they don't have the common thread of politics," he says...
...monosodium glutamate factory red-handed. Though it had taken three months of undercover work, inspectors discovered that Vedan Vietnam, a foreign-owned company, was illegally dumping untreated waste into the river. Natural Resources and Environment Minister Pham Khoi Nguyen called it "not just a violation but, in fact, treacherous behavior." An unprecedented crackdown followed: a Korean MSG manufacturer was nabbed dumping toxic waste. Several foreign-owned starch factories, which can release cyanide during processing, were shut down. On October 10, inspectors caught a Vietnamese leather tanning company pumping carcinogenic chemicals into a river in Ho Chi Minh City...