Re: Folk Psychology and Social Convention

David Longley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> http://www.behavior.org/journals_BP/2000/Place.pdf
> 
> There is quite a large literature on social conformity which could be 
> referred to, but whilst of some heuristic value (in the helpful, 
> illustrative sense) I really find that social psychological literature 
> relatively trivial compared to the rather detailed and powerful work 
> which has been done for decades in what I rather loosely refer to in 
> this newsgroup as "behaviour analysis" and "learning theory".


Thanks, you've only reminded us of this 1000 times so far. I really
find that very conforming to hear again.

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folk psychology [derogatorily] in over 1000 posts
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behaviorism [as accepted dogma] in over 500 posts
[pernicious] mentalism over 100 times
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