Journal article

By: John B. Watson

Date: 1913

Source: John B. Watson. "Psychology As the Behaviorist Views It." Psychological Review 20, 1913, 158–177. Available online at http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Watson/views.htm; website home page: http://psychclassics.yorku.ca (accessed May 15, 2003).

About the Author: John Broadus Watson (1878–1958) was born in Greenville, South Carolina. He received his master's degree from Furman College in 1900 and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1903. Watson remained at this school to teach and study the behavior of rats. In 1908, he moved to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. Here Watson set up a laboratory to run psychological experiments, and he continued to study animal behavior as well as the behavior...