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Also Known As John Broadus Watson
Born January 9, 1878 • Greenville • South Carolina
Died September 25, 1958 (aged 80) • New York City • New York
Notable Works “Behavior: An Introduction to Comparative Psychology” • “Behaviorism” • “Psychology from the Standpoint of a Behaviorist”
Subjects Of Study conditioning • infancy
Neal E. Miller
American psychologist
Edward L. Thorndike
American psychologist
Robert M. Yerkes
American psychologist
Kenneth Wartinbee Spence
American psychologist
Clark L. Hull
American psychologist
B.F. Skinner
B.F. Skinner
American psychologist
Edwin Ray Guthrie
American psychologist
Edward C. Tolman
American psychologist
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud
Austrian psychoanalyst
Moritz Lazarus, 1892
Moritz Lazarus
Jewish philosopher and psychologist
C. Lloyd Morgan
British zoologist and psychologist
John Money
American psychologist
Harry F. Harlow
American psychologist
Sheldon Glueck
American criminologist
Eleanor Glueck
American criminologist
William James
William James
American psychologist and philosopher
Leon Festinger
American psychologist
Stanley Milgram
Stanley Milgram
American social psychologist
Timothy Leary
Timothy Leary
American psychologist
Albert Bandura
Albert Bandura
American psychologist