Word: behaviorisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What do birds do, and why do they do it? Not all the answers can be found in Bird Behavior (Knopf; 224 pages; $18.95), but that is because the subjects are so colorfully diverse. Zoologist Robert Burton writes informatively on the breeding, flying, feeding and migrating habits of some of the world's 8,600- plus avian species. His introduction is inarguable: "Birds are, perhaps, the most popular group of animals and they give pleasure to thousands of people around the world." Nearly 600 photographs brilliantly feather the text. Birds are observed blushing, using tools and eating everything from insects...
...third, Mayor John Heilman, 28, sprayed a blue stripe in his hair and dressed in a flowing white robe for a political gala. On top of all that, the whole council attended a $4,000 group "leadership"-therapy session with a psychiatrist. "This is not the sort of behavior," Parks sniffs, "that inspires confidence among investors...
Guay and Wacker said the best route to weight loss was through the modification of behavior, not through medication...
...Certainly there was a lot of out-of-control behavior by a whole group of people other than the three who were arrested," said Wellesley Dean of Students Molly S. Campbell. "There certainly was harassing behavior...
...behavior of the Cornell squad was no laughing matter...