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Key People

Edward L. Thorndike

American psychologist

John B. Watson

American psychologist

Robert M. Yerkes

American psychologist

C. Lloyd Morgan

British zoologist and psychologist

Moritz Lazarus, 1892

Moritz Lazarus

Jewish philosopher and psychologist