Word: behaviorally
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...debate on the Afghan deployment in order to ensure that German troops are trained and equipped to deal with the true nature of the environment. Indeed, at least one of the soldiers implicated in the scandal has suggested that the stresses of deployment were perhaps partly responsible for his behavior. Fear and danger "may have lowered the inhibition threshold," he told Bild. In the end, his photos may well have increased Germany's inhibitions about broader military dispatches in the future...
...movie seesaws between the twin poles of masochism and sadism. It's a cunning variation on a behavioral test given to college students: they're instructed to push a button that will administer an electric shock to someone in the next room and, often as not, they do as they're told. There the point is to see if the subjects will take orders against their best instincts. Here, Jigsaw has two rationales for his eccentric behavior. One is to punish people he believes are moral transgressors, though his judgments tend to be hasty and draconian. The other is more...
...Putnam said people’s turtle-like behavior when first confronted with diversity fades over time...
...stay, I've surveyed my friends - those whose children attend public school - to see how they deal with the gap between their private culture and the one outside. There seems to be two ways to approach the problem. The first is low-key: to simply model the values and behavior you believe in, and hope for the best. The premise here is that kids are too young to be taught moral shades of gray, and can grow up most naturally if allowed to absorb the intricacies of Iranian society slowly, without too much instruction by tense parents. The benefit...
...subsequent apology Streisand pretentiously told us that the artist’s role is “to disturb.” While this is true to some extent (Streisand’s behavior has certainly seemed disturbing to me for a number of years), actors and singers should realize that political advocacy should not be their primary focus. Politics should be left to politicians, not to singers, and if an entertainer does feel the need to opine, it should be done with as much tact as possible...