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Kerry W. Buckley. Mechanical Man: John Broadus Watson and the beginnings of behaviorism. New York: The Guilford Press, 1989. 230 pp. $19.95 (cloth) (Reviewed by John M. O'Donnell)

Book ID: 101356796
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1991
Tongue: English
Weight: 173 KB
Volume: 27
Category: Article
ISSN: 0022-5061
DOI: 10.1002/1520-6696(199104)27:2<183::aid-jhbs2300270210>3.0.co;2-v

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✦ Synopsis

and boasted about living in the laboratory, and one suspects that a Boring biography would be just that. John Broadus Watson worked on white rats and on Madison Avenue. His life possessed sufficient pathos and scandal to intrigue the biographer; his career combined rigorous scientific accomplishment and jejune social philosophizing to create ambiguities that fascinate the historian of American Culture. Kerry