Word: grouping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...psychologists investigated themselves by their own beloved statistical methods, they would probably find that-as a group compared with other scientists-they were cheerful, convivial, well-dressed, well-mannered, interested in one another, argumentative, mildly frustrated. Psychology is a science notably torn by internal dissension, a state of affairs which is only partly due to the fact that it harbors a relatively large number of women. It is the human mind in the act of investigating itself-a tricky business, to which the rigorous methods of other sciences are frequently not applicable. It draws generalizations from large numbers of individuals...
...differential conditioning technique." His technique consisted of presenting neutral or distasteful items during a free lunch, items which were already preferred before or after the lunch. "The results, show the differential conditioning to be remarkably effective. Even one lunch was sufficient to produce considerable and reliable changes in the group tastes. ... It appears that the preferential value of one or another form of music or art is largely associative in nature...
...Bell System has successfully evaded effective State regulation, despite the separate corporate entities of the operating subsidiaries. . . . The System is treated as a unit for purposes of profit, and as a group of separate corporate legal entities for purposes of regulation." A. T. & T. is a utility and a monopoly and should therefore be regulated by the Government...
...these sweeping recommendations into effect, Paul Walker asked that the Communications Act of 1934 be amended to give FCC authority: 1) to "review, approve or disapprove all Bell System policies and practices promulgated by the central management group"; 2) to "permit regulation of the Western Electric Co. by the FCC as a public utility"; 3) to "fix temporary rates whenever it appears that the return on net book cost is excessive"; 4) "to regulate Bell System financing"; 5) "to limit the scope of Bell System activities to the communications field" (Bell System at various times has been involved in radio...
...February 1930. Two days later Franklin Roosevelt told a press conference at Warm Springs, Ga. that the special railroad report of ICCommissioners Splawn, Eastman & Mahaffie, given to him fortnight ago, would not be made public until after he had conferred in Washington this week with a group of operating railroaders. Then, said the President, definite recommendations would be sent to Congress in a special message...