The behaviorists maintain that, like machines, humans respond to environmental stimuli as the basis of their behavior.

行为主义者坚信，人象机器一样，对环境的刺激作出反应，这是他们行为的基础。

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On the other hand, many evolutionary biologists, in contrast to animal behaviorists, acknowledge some emotions primarily for their survival function.

另一方面，与动物行为研究学家相反，许多进化生物学家认为情感的主要作用还是帮助生存。

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On the other hand the behaviorists told us that children are MALLEABLE, kids are blank slates with nothing written on them until they are molded by their parents.

而另一方面，行为主义告诉我们孩子是有延展性的，是一个上面没有写任何东西的空白石板，一直到他们被父母所约束。

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and this is something I'm going to return to on Wednesday actually, behaviorists have provided powerful techniques for training, particularly for nonverbal creatures.

实际上我周三的时候会来讲讲这个，行为主义者们发明了,在训练非言语生物方面，非常有效的训练技术。

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Remember behaviorists were entirely comfortable studying animals and drawing extrapolations to other animals and to humans.

大家都还记得，行为主义者研究动物,然后去推断其他动物以及人类。

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And through this way behaviorists have developed token economies where they get nonhuman animals to do interesting things for seemingly arbitrary rewards like poker chips.

通过这种方式,行为主义者们发明了代币法,他们用一种特定的类似于扑克筹码的奖励,来训练非人类动物。

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The behaviorists who talk about workplace happiness will tell you that job satisfaction is driven by a sense of appreciation.

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This finding is confirmed by 30 years of research, ranging from "behaviorists" such as Robert Shiller and Richard Thaler to "efficient marketers" such as Eugene Fama and Ken French, to "economists" such as John Campbell and myself.

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Behaviorists reject the classic economic theory of human beings as ultra-rational self-interested actors and, drawing on psychology, examine the causes of seemingly irrational economic choices, such as not taking advantage of money offered in an employer-provided retirement plan or giving away more money to charity than can be explained by purely selfish motives.

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