Word: emotionalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Skinner's deterministic philosophy of radical behaviorism allows no room for free will, and that's downright threatening to most of us who adhere to the notion of an inner experience of choice. He insists that behavior is controlled by one's environment, particularly by, "contingencies of reinforcement" that bring...
Unhappy with his teaching experience at the University of Minnesota during the summer of 1945, Skinner wrote Walden Two, "a venture in self-therapy, in which I was struggling to reconcile two aspects of my own behavior represented by [the two main characters] Burris and Frazier. Now, of course, I...
Violence can be construed as the "essence" of hockey only in the sense that it is the attraction for the multitude who do not appreciate. To the true fan, violence is simply an inherent and (to an extent) controllable byproduct of this highly charged game in which emotion often gets...
Tom Wicker's career soared on such turbulence. As a correspondent for the New York Times, he distinguished himself in Dallas on Nov. 22,1963. As a liberal Southerner from Hamlet, N.C., he brought a blend of hard perception and raw emotion to the coverage of civil rights. He...
The subject of abortion is a great social and emotion-packed issue almost equally dividing our people, and equally so our physician population.