Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...series of recent experiments," he said, "33 tests of cheating behavior were devised and applied to children from nine to 14 years of age. These tests were conducted largely in the classroom but some of them pertained to the action of children at parties and in the home. To insure accurate results the experiments were necessarily made in a disguised manner...
...conclusions which these men reached were the most interesting feature of the address. "There is no difference in the cheating behavior of children of different sex, nor does difference in age between the years of nine and 14 affect their deceitful conduct. Intelligence, however, is a significant factor, as is the economic and social status of the children's homes...
...broken, whereby no woman has been guillotined in France since 1887. But kindly "Gastounet" ended by commuting all four death sentences to penal servitude for life. They will never go free. "Life imprisonment" in the U. S. often means 20 years in jail, with time off for good behavior. In France it is a sentence that means just what it says...
...Institute intends no reorganization of the University's present departments. Instead, each department will contribute to the Institute's study of all factors of human behavior and relations. Biologists, psychologists, economists, sociologists will join in the study of applied sciences like law, medicine, psychiatry. The Institute will be directed by the deans of the Graduate, Medical, and Law Schools, one social scientist, one natural scientist...
...understanding the individual. Knowledge of such theoretical sciences as biology, psychology, and sociology will be used in conjunction with what is known of such applied sciences as law, medicine, and psychiatry, analyzing the mind with the body in determining the governing influences of human behavior. Optimistic predictions of the great success expected from this novel experiment are many and varied...