John B. Watson – The Rise of Behaviorism
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John B. Watson – The Rise of Behaviorism
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By the early 20th century, psychology was still searching for its identity. Then came John B. Watson, a man who declared war on introspection. “Psychology,” he said, “must discard all reference to consciousness.” With that, he founded behaviorism — the belief that the only thing worth studying was what could be seen, measured, and controlled.
Watson’s experiments were bold and often controversial. He conditioned fear in a child known as Little Albert, showing how emotions could be trained like reflexes. He viewed humans not as mysteries of the soul, but as organisms shaped by their environment — programmable, predictable, and malleable.
This episode examines the seductive simplicity and cold precision of behaviorism, and how Watson’s ideas reshaped education, advertising, and even parenting. It’s a story of rebellion against the unseen — and a turning point when psychology turned its gaze outward, away from the mind and toward behavior.
John B. Watson wanted psychology to be as hard as physics — and in doing so, he stripped it of its poetry. But he also made it measurable, testable, and modern.
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