Word: research
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Believing as he does that too little federal money has been put into scientific research in recent years, Dr. Lee A. Du-Bridge, 67, is sure to be popular among his professional colleagues. Named last week as Science Adviser to the Nixon Administration, the articulate president of the California Institute of Technology will need all the teaching and administrative experience he has gained at five universities. His responsibilities will include keeping the President abreast of scientific developments at home and abroad, selling the Administration's policies to the academic community, and intensifying the nation's federal and private...
...basic science, DuBridge has built his reputation primarily as a thoughtful and creative administrator. He is also a social activist in Los Angeles, where he is chairman of the local Urban Coalition. Speaking at Notre Dame last year, Dr. DuBridge decried the use of university facilities for secret research into such things as weaponry...
...following are excerpts from a paper delivered by Dr. Bandura. Much has been omitted. People professionally interested in his research should contact Dr. Bandura in California or the CRIMSON for references to the full published write-ups of the experiments...
Although a certain amount of socialization of a child takes place through direct training, research bearing on modeling processes demonstrates that, unlike the relatively slow process of instrumental training, when a model is provided, patterns of behavior are rapidly acquired in large segements or in their entirety...
...contrast to this "drainage" view, the growing body of research provides considerable evidence that vicarious participation in aggressive activities can be highly effective in modifying observers' aggressive behavior, but not in the direction predicted by the catharsis hypothesis. These findings are perhaps not too surprising. It is highly improbable that even advocates of vicarious drive reduction would recommend community programs in which sexually aroused adolescents are shown libidinous movies at drive-in theatres as a means of reducing sexual behavior, or in which famished persons are presented displays of gourmands dining on culinary treats in order to alleviate hunger pangs...