Modern Perspectives on John B. Watson and Classical Behaviorism.

The Psychological Record | June 22, 1995| | Copyright

In recent years there has been renewed interest in the life of John Watson and the beginning of classical behaviorism evidenced by two full-length biographies (Cohen, 1979 and Buckley, 1989). For the most part, however, Watson and behaviorism have suffered from a long period of neglect. Gustav Bergmann regarded Watson as one of the most important psychologists of this century, second only to Freud. Yet, think of the hundreds of books and articles written about Freud and psychoanalysis compared with the trickle of books and articles treating Watson and classical behaviorism. The ...

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