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...that Walter Bowart was a proponent of the counterculture movement of the 1960s, the writer of a seminal book on mind control, as well as a prolific publisher and editor of both newspapers and magazines?
...that Richard C. McCarty helped launch the "Decade of Behavior" campaign to bring attention to the importance of behavioral and social research?
...that social loafing is the phenomenon in which people make less effort when they work as part of a group than when working alone?
...that one of the most important advances in medieval Muslim psychology was the establishment of the first psychiatric hospitals?
...that race car journalist and former race car driver Dr. Dick Berggren decided to stop teaching college psychology after he was called into the college president's office because he parked his racecar in the faculty parking lot?