Word: behaviorisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...combination of nicotine gum and behavior modification programs may prove the most effective therapy for smokers who want to quit, according to a study released yesterday by a Kennedy School research institute...
...YOUR BEST BEHAVIOR whenever a comedian's nearby, because if you do anything stupid, silly or even just a little bit odd, he'll put it in his act in a way that makes you look particularly foolish. And then everyone will find out what an idiot you really...
...crime rate rose again in 1985 and early 1986. Blumstein offers this explanation: while there are fewer young males generally, there has been a disproportionate increase of males in the underclass. This group, with all its attendant ills of poverty, alienation and broken homes, is particularly prone to criminal behavior. "What we're seeing," says Blumstein, "is a changing social-class composition, and crime correlates with social class...
...certainly have no reason to be arrogant and self-righteous. But we may look back with gratitude on our development over these 40 years, if we use the memory of our own history as a guideline for future behavior...
...people cannot be reached through education. "There is a despairing theory in health education that says until there is some horrible base-line number of people who have died, the disease doesn't become personal enough to the rest of the community for it to take fundamental changes in behavior seriously...