Word: behaviorisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their estimated present and future wealth and that they save according to this plan and consume all their savings during their lifetimes. Studies by several economists have generated erratic results using the model. According to Aaron, these studies "indicate that the life-cycle model does not correctly describe the behavior of many or most savers...
...printing the story, Fedders' lawyer, Nathan Lewin, dismissed the piece as "gratuitous" and "exaggerated." Yet a senior Administration official privately conceded that President Reagan could not keep on a known wife abuser, no matter how effectively he performed his job. Indeed, the White House had been informed of Fedders' behavior last year when Mrs. Fedders, after hearing Reagan decry "family violence" in a speech, composed a tell-all letter that was eventually forwarded by her sister to White House Counsel Fred Fielding. In it she wrote plaintively, "I do not understand how a man can enforce one set of laws...
Some of the worst behavior toward the homeless seems to have subsided since last fall, partly because of publicity and legal actions filed on behalf of victims. A flurry of civil suits in Winnemucca, Nev., charge that the 20- member police force has been tossing "undesirables" into garbage pits or driving them deep into the desert and leaving them. Troll-busting attacks on the homeless in Santa Barbara and Santa Cruz are sharply down from 1984. But the intimidation appears to have taken its toll nonetheless. "After the attacks and the shooting into the bushes and cars where they sleep...
Shainess, a psychiatrist, is engaged in redefining masochism. It is not the usual deviant behavior that guys joke about in the locker room. Instead, it is at daily component in most women's lives. According to Shiness, masochism begins within the family when parents, perpetuating a pattern they learned in their first homes, begin to damage their child's fragile...
...this tough autonomy becomes alarmingly akin to what is conventionally defined as masculine. It is unclear whether Shainess wishes to help women to become less masochistic or to become men. In the conclusion of her book she describes several famous women who may meet the standards of non-masochistic behavior. The ideal, apparently, is Golda Meir...