[lit-ideas] Re: Tittles--a change of title

  • From: "John McCreery" <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:34:54 +0900

2008/6/11 Andy <mimi.erva@xxxxxxxxx>:

> I would add that psychologists explain the *hidden* reasons behind why
> people behave as they do.  It's the hidden motives that are so powerful
> because they're hidden.  It's like going from two dimensions into three
> dimensions.  It's hard to think of Skinner as a psychologist.  As far as I
> know he was stimulus and response, conditioning, that sort of thing, the
> antithesis of hidden drives.
>

How, pray tell, does this add anything to better understanding of why Keegan
said "Mommy whoop-whoop" and John knew that he wanted to see the Sikorsky
site again? What hidden motives do you see here? What have motives to do
with the issue at all?

John

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