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...Patricia Hearst has not only fallen victim to a tragic kidnaping but also to a phylogenetically evolved trait that Konrad Lorenz in his book On Aggression calls "militant enthusiasm." It is a behavior pattern precipitated when young people especially are abruptly exposed to the corrupt, hypocritical aspects of society and thereupon reject all the values and social traditions of that society. They then look for a cause that represents new and higher ideals into which they can wholeheartedly throw themselves. We have all experienced this phenomenon at one time in our lives, whether we acted upon...
Signers of the petition, which appeared as an advertisement in yesterday's New York Times, include Kenneth J. Arrow, professor of Economics; Konrad E. Bloch, Higgins Professor of Biochemistry; Simon F. Kuznets, George F. Baker Professor of Economics, emeritus; Wassily W. Leontief, Henry Lee Professor of Economics; Dean Rosovsky; and Krister Stendahl, dean of the Divinity School...
...instinctive killer, fated by his genes to be cruel and aggressive? Or is he a product of his environment who, with proper conditioning, would be gentle, peaceful and loving? Perhaps the most notable advocate of the "instinctivist" theory is Konrad Lorenz (On Aggression), co-winner of the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Lorenz found instinctive aggression in animals and suggested that man is similarly programmed by evolution. Behaviorist B.F. Skinner, conversely, has long argued that man can be conditioned to forsake his violent ways. Now Erich Fromm, 73, social philosopher, psychoanalyst and bestselling author (The Sane Society...
Faculty members contacted yesterday were hesitant to comment on the plan until it has been acted upon by the full Faculty. Konrad E. Bloch, Higgins Professor of Biochemistry and director of admissions for the department, called the plan "the best of a bad situation...
SUNDAY: Primal Man. First of a four part series on primitive homo sapiens sounds like Konrad Lorenz in Ape-face. What were the roots of violence and aggression in man, is the question. Filmed in the Mohave Desert. CH.5. 7:30 p.m. Color...