Searching for a future for behaviorism: A review of the new behaviorism by John Staddon

From: Behavior and Philosophy | Date: January 1, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

In 1933 Edna Heidbreder published her classic book, Seven Psychologies. There she regretted that psychology remained, at that time, a fractionated, ill-fitting assemblage of endeavors, with each segment finding the others wanting, and each "appalled" at the "flimsiness and shoddiness of much material they are asked to accept as genuine fact" (p. 3). "Psychologists," she added, "are continually looking upon the work of their colleagues and finding that it is not good. And with little hesitation, or with none at all, they expose the weaknesses and flaws they discover" (p. 3). Notwithstanding ...

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