Humanistic psychologists look at human behavior notonly through the eyes of the observer, but through the eyes of the person doingthe behaving. Humanistic psychologists believe that an individual's behavior isconnected to his inner feelings and self-image. Unlike the behaviorists, humanistic psychologists believe that humans arenot solely the product of their environment. Rather humanistic psychologistsstudy human meanings, understandings, and experiences involved in growing,teaching, and learning. They emphasize characteristics that are shared by allhuman beings such as love, grief, caring, and self-worth.
On February 12, 2005, at the age of 61, Sammi Smith died at her home in Oklahoma City of emphysema. Her remains were buried in Guymon, Oklahoma, which she claimed was her home town (in a Hee Haw episode that aired Jan 1, 1973).
Jayne Mansfield's Head. ''Her head was attached as much as mine is,'' says Jim Roberts, gently dismissing a longstanding myth about Jayne Mansfield's grisly demise. The accepted version (now playing in the movie ''Crash'') has it that Mansfield was beheaded when she died in a car accident just outside of New Orleans on June 29, 1967. Roberts says the beheading part is hooey, and he should know -- he was her undertaker. ''People always figured wrong about Jayne,'' he laments.