Word: behaviorism
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While most of this seems rather funny and surreal, it masks a more sinister side. The Movement has been accused more than once of cult-like behavior and brainwashing its followers—just talk to some of those pamphleteers if you have any doubts...
...LaRouchians will successfully recruit Harvard students into their cult, but that they will continue to be a constant blight on our campus—supposedly a place of rational discourse. My fury, as they thrust their nonsensical pamphlets into my book-laden arms, stems from the fact that their behavior pollutes the image of every reasonable and conscientious anti-war activist...
...echoes of the work of Sigmund Freud. Psychoanalysis, the family of psychological theories and methods he devised in the 1890s, underpins the many forms of psychotherapy available today. Freud postulated the existence of the unconscious, which he said is shaped by early experience and can profoundly affect moods and behavior, its secrets detectable in dreams and slips of the tongue. "[Braydle] would justify his treatment of [Beddoe] as building a relationship with her," says Jureidini, who wrote the foreword to Beddoe's book, "but it's a bastardization of psychotherapy, just as the way she was treated with medication...
...scatological and the priapic is one of the most sinister and compelling men of the twentieth century. But he remains an enigma, both to the reader and to the author exploring him—an author who seems more interested in the allegorical constructs he creates to describe human behavior than the behavior they’re meant to illuminate.Unable to penetrate Hitler’s depths, Mailer pulls back, focusing instead on his devil-narrator and the Hitler family and ending the novel shortly after Adolf reaches adolescence.So the story goes something like this: a hellspawn is assigned...
...Luckily, our search behavior doesn't lie. Here's a hypothetical based on recent events. Imagine if you polled Americans and asked what was more significant: a candidate's past use of illicit drugs, or a candidate's enrollment in a Muslim school at the age of 6? Intuition says that you'd get a more or less equal amount of concern about both issues. Search term data proves otherwise. If we look at the search patterns for 10 million U.S. Internet users over the last four weeks, the impact of the revelation of Barack Obama's elementary school...