Word: behaviorism
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...been asking yourself why you aren't rich or don't have more disposable income, perhaps the answer isn't about how much money you're making. Internet behavior appears to indicate that it may have more to do with how much you're saving...
Parents who suspect that artificial ingredients in food are affecting their children's behavior can now point to some cold, hard proof. A carefully designed study released Thursday in The Lancet, a leading British medical journal, shows that a variety of common food dyes and the preservative sodium benzoate - an ingredient in many soft drinks, fruit juices, salad dressings and other foods - causes some children to become more hyperactive and distractible than usual...
...study prompted Britain's Food Standards Agency to issue an immediate advisory to parents to limit their children's intake of additives if they notice an effect on behavior. In the U.S., there's been no such official response, but doctors say it makes sense for parents to be on the alert...
...concentration of the additives, and a third was additive-free. All the children spent a week drinking each of the three mixtures, which looked and tasted alike. During each weeklong period, teachers and parents, who did not know which drink the kids were getting, used a variety of standardized behavior-evaluation tools - some observational and one computer-based - to size up such qualities as restlessness, lack of concentration, fidgeting, and talking or interrupting too much. (See nine kid foods to avoid...
...racked up in their first years of practice. Overall, the 3,424, physicians had 1,116 complaints among them, of which 696 were deemed valid after medical-authority investigation. The physicians who scored low on the test - the poor communicators, who were, say, condescending, judgmental or flippant in their behavior - had generated a disproportionate number of those complaints. Doctors with scores in the bottom quartile on the test's communication-related portion had 70% more legitimate complaints per year of practice than the top-quartile performers; the poor communicators had 4.3 complaints per 100 doctors per year while their higher...