behaviorism
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Social cooling, coined by Tijmen Schep, is behaviorism 101.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 22, 2022
Dr. Staats may not have been a household name, at least not beyond the professional circles where he was known for developing a field of study called psychological behaviorism.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 4, 2021
I reiterated my why-Freud-isn’t-dead argument: yes, psychoanalysis is profoundly flawed, but so are all other paradigms for explaining and treating the mind, from behaviorism to psychopharmacology.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 16, 2019
This pattern makes a sad kind of sense in the context of behaviorism.
From The Verge ● Jan. 24, 2018
Much of the focus in psychology at the time was around behaviorism.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
Small kind behaviorisms are seen in the street very much oftener now than just after the war.
From Time Magazine Archive
Associated with this high degree of anxiety are displacement behaviorisms, including bill-wiping, reversal of direction on a single perch, and a nervous hopping from one perch to another.
From Natural History of the Bell Vireo, Vireo bellii Audubon by Jon C. Barlow
Other behaviorisms of this species indicate that it is not territorial.
From Comparative Breeding Behavior of Ammospiza caudacuta and A. maritima by Glen E. Woolfenden
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