"Spockian" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1960, \"Now 'Dr. Spock' Goes to the White House, The New York Times, 1960 December 4",
          "text": "The Spockian influence on motherhood-at-large is, today, almost legendary."
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          "ref": "1968, Frederick C. Crews, The Patch Commission, page 25:",
          "text": "The Spockian ploy is to announce one's sins and then go right ahead and compound them. All the man does is shed a few crocodile tears over the parents' unhappy lot and then proceed directly with his blueprint for infantocracy.",
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          "ref": "1988, Nancy Pottishman Weiss, “Mother, the Invention of Necessity: Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care”, in N. Ray Hiner, Joseph M. Hawes, editors, Growing Up in America: Children in Historical Perspective, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN:",
          "text": "The triumph of the Spockian dictum of a privatized child-rearing world, shorn of political concerns, may, in part, explain the vehemence with which Dr. Spock has been attacked for his own peace activities.",
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          "ref": "1990, Philip Elliot Slater, The Pursuit of Loneliness: American Culture at the Breaking Point, Beacon Press, →ISBN, page 100:",
          "text": "They seem to be more certain that desire can be gratified than that it can be aroused — a response that probably owes much to Spockian child-rearing. In earlier times a mother responded to her child's needs when they were expressed powerfully enough to distract her from other cares and activities. Spockian mothers, however, often tried to anticipate the child's needs:[…]",
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            "Telecommunications",
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          "ref": "1989, Howard Aiken, “Early Inventors”, in Robert Slater, editor, Portraits in Silicon, The MIT Press, →ISBN:",
          "text": "And you can see from the Spockian ears and the raised eyebrows, he had a positive Mephistophelian look.",
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          "ref": "1997, Alex Matthews, Satan's Silence: The Second Cassidy McCabe Mystery, Intrigue Press, →ISBN, page 135:",
          "text": "She bit into tough, stringy meat that had a pungent, wild taste to it. \"Interesting,\" she commented, attempting a Spockian neutrality.",
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          "ref": "2009, Paul Herr, Primal Management: Unraveling the Secrets of Human Nature to Drive High Performance, AMACOM, →ISBN, page 24:",
          "text": "Most cognitive psychologists in the mideighties viewed the brain as a computer-like mechanism based on pure logic and rational thought. There was no room for emotions in their Spockian formulation.",
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          "text": "The triumph of the Spockian dictum of a privatized child-rearing world, shorn of political concerns, may, in part, explain the vehemence with which Dr. Spock has been attacked for his own peace activities.",
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          "text": "They seem to be more certain that desire can be gratified than that it can be aroused — a response that probably owes much to Spockian child-rearing. In earlier times a mother responded to her child's needs when they were expressed powerfully enough to distract her from other cares and activities. Spockian mothers, however, often tried to anticipate the child's needs:[…]",
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          "text": "And you can see from the Spockian ears and the raised eyebrows, he had a positive Mephistophelian look.",
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          "ref": "1997, Alex Matthews, Satan's Silence: The Second Cassidy McCabe Mystery, Intrigue Press, →ISBN, page 135:",
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