Word: skinnerism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Skinner...
This overwhelming confidence in the system did, in fact, alienate the audience which had previously been responding well to Kennedy's colorful criticisms of the Nixon Administration with terms like "Richard Nixon lives in a Skinner box" and "the honkings of the Administration's Clarabelle...
...Richard Nixon lives in a Skinner box," Kennedy said. "He responds only to rewards and punishments that his senses can appreciate. Your silence is not neutral in his environment--it counts distinctly as pleasure. And this reinforces the rewards he gets from his own narrow constituency whenever he appeals to their basest instincts and panders to their prejudices...
...rehabilitated," has got to be a poor one indeed. Certainly political prisoners exist in this country today. The authorities do not consider you sufficiently rehabilitated until you have lost all traces of any millitancy you once possessed. It reminds me, frighteningly, of George Orwell's 1984. DAVID SKINNER Santa...
...What people should be aware of is that it's a social question, rather than a race question which Herrnstein is raising here. Thus, I am concerned about the creation of a society in which each person is decently treated despite his capabilities," Skinner added...