I am also considerably different from these people in many areas. This is not because I have a special inner "I" that was able to reject and override the external influences on me. My background was unlike those of my peers in some ways, resulting in me being different from my peers in some ways. The first such factor was me reading and listening to rationalist literature and talk while growing up from the political parties of Madras. The next was my reading Bertrand Russell in India and Rene Dubos, George Gaylord Simpson, and Theodosius Dobzhansky during my formative eraly years in the US. The most important was my getting very interested in the works of B.F.Skinner, which I have sustained for over a quarter century.
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verbal behavior