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| Program Number | S0112 |
| Title | The Mechanism of Moral Development |
| PBS Number | 305 |
| Moderator | - |
| Host | Buckley, William F. (William Frank), 1925-2008. |
| Guest(s) | 1) Skinner, B. F. (Burrhus Frederic), 1904-1990. - Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, author of
Beyond Freedom and Dignity and Walden Two 2) Festinger, Leon, 1919- - Professor of Psychology at the New School for Social Research, author of A Theory of Cognitive Development 3) Glass, Andrea. - Panelist. New York University 4) Grill, Harvey. - Panelist. New York University 5) Clark, Elisabeth. - Panelist. New York University |
| Taped on | Oct 16, 1973 (New York City, NY) |
| Broadcast Date | - |
| Duration | 60 minutes (or hh:mm:ss) |
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| Summary | The first in what WFB describes as "rather spectacular and, I hope, thoughtful series of four exchanges between men distinguished in the social sciences ..." The series lives up to its billing, starting with this session featuring the leader of the behaviorist school of psychology and a leader in cognitive theory. Do people develop the attitudes they do because, as Mr. Skinner puts it, "when we behave in selfish ways, we get slapped down"? Or do you also, in Mr. Festinger's phrase, "start getting the internalization in the sense that the person really likes that, values it, and will go on doing it in the absence of sanctioning supervision"? An extremely rich discussion, full of graspable details ranging from monkeys solving puzzles to the differences and similarities between a child's rattle and Beethoven's Ninth. |
| Subject Heading(s) | Moral development. Human behavior. |
| Related Document(s) | Type(s): Transcript Type(s): News releases, photos, negatives, folder describing S112, S113, S1 |
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| Transcript | Download transcript (80040_s0112_trans.pdf) |
