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John B. Watson remembered: An interview with James B. Watson
Author(s) -
Hannush Mufid James
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
journal of the history of the behavioral sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.216
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1520-6696
pISSN - 0022-5061
DOI - 10.1002/1520-6696(198704)23:2<137::aid-jhbs2300230204>3.0.co;2-y
Subject(s) - watson , biography , behaviorism , psychoanalysis , psychology , personality , history of psychology , sociology , art history , art , psychotherapist , computer science , natural language processing
Little is known about the personal life of John B. Watson, and this interview aims at capturing the personality of the founder of American behaviorism through the eyes of his son, James B. Watson. Today, psychologists and other social scientists increasingly realize that there is an intimate link between the biography of a psychologist and the kind of psychology he or she founds. Thus biographical information about a founding psychologist can help researchers make explicit this essential link.