Word: behaviorisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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George K. Zipf, for the preparation of the manuscript of a book on the principle of least action in individual and social behavior...
...from Right to Left and from Left to Right has been characteristic of all democracies during the 19th Century and up to a few years ago. A period of consolidation and sometimes of reaction has normally followed a period of social reform. . . . It can be argued that this cyclical behavior assured the stability of democratic institutions during the times when only a few extremist groups challenged the advantages of democracy over any other form of government. But this easy and regular pulsation of democratic organisms has been violently disturbed ever since the last war. . . . One of the slogans...
Result: 532 (58.6%) of the patients have remained abstinent for at least six months; of 142 whose behavior has been watched for more than four years, 44.7% have remained teetotalers. Drs. Voegtlin and Lemere say patients should return occasionally for reconditioning...
...Abnormal Behavior, "particularly neuroses and functional psychoses," is very well discussed by White in Psych. 36, and is counted the best course in the field...
...these insults to their moral standards and to their common humanity. ... In whatever form we may each worship our own conception of supreme power and absolute goodness, we one and all desire to see those ethical and moral standards which are implicit in our religion become touchstone of our behavior...