Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Quote of the Day: (after burning all his personal papers before his death) "When you're dead, you're all dead"

John Watson, the father of behaviorism, a foundational figure in psychology, a Johns Hopkins University researcher who rose from poverty to prominence only to watch his academic career cut short by scandal. When he’s remembered now, it’s often in connection an experiment where he conditioned an infant to be terrified of practically everything, his legacy forever entwined with the baby nicknamed Little Albert.  Doc Watson is on very few "favorite hero" lists, usually right after Josef Mengele and Hannibal Lector.

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