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Letting go of little Albert: Disciplinary memory, history, and the uses of myth

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Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2011
Tongue: English
Weight: 582 KB
Volume: 47
Category: Article
ISSN: 0022-5061
DOI: 10.1002/jhbs.20470

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Abstract

In 2009 American Psychologist published the account of an attempt to identify the infant “Albert B.,” who participated in Watson and Rayner's study of the conditioning of human fears. Such literal interpretations of the question “Whatever happened to Little Albert?” highlight the importance of historical writing that transcends the narrowly biographical and that avoids the obsessive hunt for “facts.” The author of a 1979 study of how secondary sources have told the story of Little Albert relates his attempts to purge incorrect accounts of that story from college textbooks. He renounces such efforts as misguided and suggests that myths in the history of psychology can be instructive, including the myth that the identity of Little Albert has been discovered. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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