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Jackpine Radical

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1. Behaviorists would also deny that YOU feel shame--or at least,

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Wed Feb 26, 2014, 11:53 AM

Feb 2014

that your feelings have anything to do with your behavior. Mental states are at best epiphenomena.

Other psychologists have been blowing holes in the hull of behaviorism for many decades (e.g. see Harry Harlow's address to the American Psychological Association in about 1951, later printed as H F HARLOW. (1953). Mice, monkeys, men, and motives. Psychological review. doi:10.1037/h0056040). Unfortunately, that hull refuses to sink, presumably because it's so lightweight.

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Behaviorists: Dogs feel no shame despite the look [View all] The Straight Story Feb 2014 OP

Behaviorists would also deny that YOU feel shame--or at least, Jackpine Radical Feb 2014 #1

Sounds like dogs share at least one attribute "no shame" with extreme human Conservatives. gordianot Feb 2014 #2

Training a dog is all about timing liberal N proud Feb 2014 #3

I could have told them this a month after we got our Cairn Terrier. NaturalHigh Feb 2014 #4

Next you'll be telling me they're not human at all, but dogs instead. Iggo Feb 2014 #5

just recently there was a study declaring that dogs had secondary emotions La Lioness Priyanka Feb 2014 #6

Well my Newfoundlands can put on a good imitation of shame newfie11 Feb 2014 #7

If Marcy has done something she knows she shouldn't have, she hides before I find it. hobbit709 Feb 2014 #8