ROBERT PENN WARREN AND B. F. SKINNER ON DETERMINISM AND BEHAVIOR

In Robert Penn Warren's novel All The King's Men (1946), the protagonist Jack Burden heads to the west coast after learning that his life-long love, Ann Stanton, has become the mistress of his friend Willie Stark. With the facial tic serving as a metaphor for determined behavior, Burden ad...

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Published inJournal of the experimental analysis of behavior Vol. 88; no. 1; pp. 150 - 151
Main Author Katz, Jonathan L.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.07.2007
Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, Inc
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Behaviorism
Quotation
Self Control
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Summary:In Robert Penn Warren's novel All The King's Men (1946), the protagonist Jack Burden heads to the west coast after learning that his life-long love, Ann Stanton, has become the mistress of his friend Willie Stark. With the facial tic serving as a metaphor for determined behavior, Burden addresses the question of how "knowledge" of behavior's determinants (in Burden's words: "the truth") influences the behavior of those with the knowledge.
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ArticleID:JEAB3706
ISSN:0022-5002
1938-3711
0022-5002
DOI:10.1901/jeab.2007.38-07