Word: behaviorisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Education about sexual behavior among those at risk for AIDS works. A precipitous fall--on the order of 75 percent--in the rate of venereal infection among homosexual men in some urban areas has shown the efficacy of education for behavioral change. Examples like that bode well for an education effort to address the fact that teenage girls in the U.S. are five times more likely to get pregnant than those in other countries, and that 60 percent of Black children are born out of wedlock. Studies of programs in schools show that neither distributing contraceptives nor educating teens about...
When my friend told me of her experience, I was shocked and angered that she would be insulted and harassed here at Harvard, in the liberal North. I live in the deep South and have come to expect such despicable behavior there. The parents of a friend of mine there, for example, did not allow him to watch The Jeffersons because the sitcom was about a Black family...
Wanda: Because there's been an exciting breakthrough in prenuptials, Ralph. In the old days, people concentrated on protecting themselves financially in case of divorce. Today couples are adding life-style clauses. Sociologist Lenore Weitzman, author of The Marriage Contract, calls them blueprints for behavior...
...Ralph: I think we have a meeting of the minds here, my pet. Can I add the provision that you won't say goodbye to everyone at parties then stand in the doorway talking to the hostess for an hour, or is this behavior under genetic control...
Normally, I wouldn't feel such a strong affinity for a man who subverted the chain of command of the American government in order to promote bloodshed in war-torn countries. Usually, I would consider such behavior unworthy of esteem. A bad thing, if you will...