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VIDEO: Dr. James Garbarino Talks About the Advantages of Predictability, Regardless of the Situation
Watch an exerpt from PsychAlive’s exclusive interview with Dr. James Garbarino.
Dr. James Garbarino talks about how predicting behavior in others is advantageous – and how irrational behavior can be hard to respond to.
Dr. James Garbarino: I think whether it’s children or dogs, predictability generally is an asset in people’s relationships. That people can accommodate to a lot, if at least they know it’s predictable. If you know that your mother is cranky on Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays because that’s the day X happens, or if you know that on Fridays, your father gets a bit wild because that’s when he gets his pay check, you can find a way with that sort of predictability to rationalize your environment a bit, to perhaps adjust your behavior. You don’t come home on Friday because your father is wild. You don’t talk to your mother until she’s had her coffee.
In the same way, some kids report that if their peer environment in the school is predictable, it gives them a little bit of safety, at least in the sense that, alright, I know, for example, if you watch the TV show Glee, you know that if you’re in the singing group and you walk down the hall,
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There was a time not that long ago when the issue of lethal youth violence was marginalized. Everything changed in April 1999 in the wake of the Littleton shootings in Colorado. What changed is that now all of North America, including middle-class white North America, can look in the newspaper and see their kids involved with or victim to violence. We need to understand the legacy of racism and classism that informs this issue and defines it in many ways, but at the same time we need to make use of this mobilization of energy. Simply because energy is mobilized does not mean that people will do the right thing.
If it’s action you want, North Americans are number one. The slogan “Just do it!” should probably be our national motto. But if what is needed is to think more deeply about the issue, it’s necessary to lean on a much more European tradition, where theory and deep analysis have a longer history and greater kind of social credence.
There was a German psychologist (Kurt Lewin) who worked in the United States and tried to bring the European approach to America. Lewin once wrote that “there is nothing so practical as a good theory,” which, to an American ear, often sounds like a contradiction in terms. We tend to think theoretical is over here and practical over there
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