Word: behaviorisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chief complaints by the taxi drivers focused on "police harassment," which they said includes excessively rigid enforcement of traffic laws, unwarranted parking tickets, insulting behavior, and comparatively lax enforcement of the cabs' right to stay in areas designated as taxi stands...
...exiled sophomores have been granted shelter. Several houses face crowded situations within the house as well. University officials point to an unusually low attrition rate, which means fewer students than usual are taking time off. We sympathize with the difficult task Harvard housing officials have of predicting the behavior of not-so-predictable undergraduates...
...MMPI, which grew out of work in the late 1930s at the University of Minnesota by Psychologist Starke Hathaway and Psychiatrist J.C. McKinley, assesses character, attitudes and behavior by the patterns of responses (true, false, cannot say) to 566 statements. Originally designed to help identify those with psychological problems, the test was widely used in clinical settings during World War II by military officials who wanted quick findings about attitudes toward authority, impulse control, drive to dominate and other potentially troubling aspects of the normal personality...
...full-scale showdown with the Kremlin over the seizure of Nicholas Daniloff, the American reporter being detained in Moscow on what the U.S. regards as trumped-up espionage charges. Why, they asked, was Reagan being so cautious and pragmatic about not making a firm link between such Soviet behavior and progress on arms negotiations...
...decades ago it was fashionable to say, 'to hold people responsible for their own behavior is to blame the victim.' That line just is not tenable," said Loury. He said the present welfare system had fostered behavior among the poor that perpetuates their role as an underclass...