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Said Chief Medical Examiner James Weston: "Virtually every one of the bodies had overkill, which is to say that there was more than mob hysteria. There was rage." Added Dr. Marc Orner, the psychologist at the prison: "None of us really understands what happened in there...
...seemed like an extraordinary display of chimp intelligence, but retired Harvard Psychologist B.F. Skinner was certain that creatures much lower in the evolutionary pecking order could be conditioned to communicate in a similar way. Now the famed behaviorist and two of his students have published convincing evidence in Science to support his controversial belief...
...Collective Behavior: "The gold rush is a classic case of panic. The people who are dealing in gold are operating under the fantasy that the world economic structure is going to collapse. They are living by the myth hat the only thing that will survive is gold." Harvard Social Psychologist Roger Brown compares the panic to he rush on the gates of the Who concert in Cincinnati that left eleven dead. Says he: "The fear that they are going to be too late and left out causes people to stampede." Adds
...Psychologist Edward Taub of Maryland's Institute for Behavioral Research: "What we are seeing in action here is the law of positive reinforcement. Translated into lay language, that means greed...
Beyond the fact that much less communication is handwritten now than it was in the days of the quill pen, experts point to several causes of scriptural sloppiness. Some blame a spreading weakness of will. Says Sam Toombs, a Houston psychologist: "Bad handwriting is a way of saying something and taking it back at the same time. People scrawl signatures on material for which they don't want to be held responsible." Others cite the hurried nature of modern society, in which speed is given a higher priority than clarity. Pen makers decry poor instruction: while courses in calligraphy...