One answer is there are times in your life where half a second can matter a lot.

第一个答案是,在你生命在有很多时候,半秒钟能产生巨大的影响。

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If Skinner kept the focus on rats and pigeons and dogs, he would not have the impact that he did but he argued that you could extend all of these notions to humans and to human behavior.

如果斯金纳只是研究老鼠鸽子或是狗，他就不会拥有如此巨大的有影响力了,但他宣称，这些概念是可以应用到,人类以及人类行为中去的。

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