Word: behaviorisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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BLACK PLUMES-Margery Allingham -Crime Club ($2). Intricate behavior of the Ivory family, plagued by murder, a Tibetan Enoch Arden, their own famed art collection and its curators. Bedridden Gabrielle, grand old Ivory dame, sends her imperious influence through walls and minds and even Inspector Bridie...
...Other matings are gentler, even flirtatious. Dr. Jennings said he had seen pairs nuzzle each other several times, then swim off side by side in graceful spirals, like "couples in a dance." After years of watching these goings-on, Dr. Jennings was willing to carry the origins of social behavior all the way back to one-celled animals...
...Hyland Erickson, director of psychiatric research at Eloise Hospital in Michigan, observed a young woman who, when she sneezed, nearly always sneezed twice in rapid succession. After one sneeze she waited for the second and if it did not come felt "a distressing sense of incompleteness." Checking the sneeze behavior of the woman's mother, he ran into another double-sneeze pattern. When a granddaughter was born, Dr. Erickson kept careful record of her sneezing, found three generations of double sneezers. In his report in the current Journal of Genetic Psychology, he concluded: "Variations in the [sneeze] pattern...
...themselves as far as the poles," have at least six classes: lower-lower, upper-lower, lower-middle, middle-middle, upper-middle, upper. Upper-class Negroes describe their inferiors as "the common, ignorant sort of niggers." It is his class, rather than his race, which determines a Negro's behavior, personality, ambitions...
David's conclusion: "The summum bonum is to be achieved, therefore, through a maximum of individual freedom of action consistent with behavior which is not predatory, or anti-social...