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Ray Cabarga's Break from Hell's avatar

I studied lab rats for many years. I now have a degree in rodent psychology.

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Use Your Words~ Marcie's avatar

I resemble that remark.? I’m no comedian but when in Rome do as the Roman’s do. I love Substack and when I saw Mr. John Cleese, I smiled from ear to ear and I just want to dream of thinking I might put a smile on his face. Fantasy maybe. Quid pro quo. 🤓

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Teed Rockwell's avatar

There's another joke about Behaviorism that I heard from a Psychologist. There was a Psychologist who was doing Social Psychology at a Behaviorist dept. Someone asked him "What do you do, run two rats down a maze?" He said "Oh, nothing that complex".

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Patrick's avatar

I couldn't agree more with this. Science always starts simple and has to move forward, and discover what was too simple or just wrong.

The people I have locked up in boxes in the lab, however, might have to be let out if Trump takes away my NIH grant. Or if someone pulls the fire alarm again.

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Teed Rockwell's avatar

The best book on the death of Behaviorism is Bernard Baar's "Cognitive Revolution in Psychology". It's mostly interviews with Psychologists who gradually discovered that Behaviorism couldn't make sense out of what they were discovering in the lab. It was the primary source for this paper of mine. https://www.academia.edu/1133065/The_Effects_of_Atomistic_Ontology_on_the_History_of_Psychology

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ClemenceDane's avatar

Who are your favorite philosophers of psychology? What do you think of the work of Alice Miller?

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Kevin O'Reardon's avatar

Rats are highly intelligent social creatures. Humans are complex.

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Use Your Words~ Marcie's avatar

Do celebrities often use WhatsApp? Asking for a friend.

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Use Your Words~ Marcie's avatar

This one time I told a person they were likely pushers and dancers. I didn’t want to be disappointed nor waste my time pretending.

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