Item Detail
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26274
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English
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A Behaviorist Looks at Joseph
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John Whitmer Historical Association Journal
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2013
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33
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no. 1
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Independence, MO
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John Whitmer Historical Association
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115-121
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The article outlines how modern behavioral theory can show a composite of the personality strengths by which American religious leader Joseph Smith, Jr. was able to accomplish his remarkable feat. It is said that the reasons why the blind spots that block a full image of reality can be understood through the Herrmann four-quadrant model. It is also noted that the historical record tends to portray a highly functioning Smith in each four quadrants in studying his behaviors through each of the four lenses. Most of Smith's evolving doctrine are said to have come together near his death in his seminal King Follett Discourse about the congruence of men and gods.