John B. Watson | Academic Influence

Why Is John B. Watson Influential?

According to Wikipedia, John Broadus Watson was an American psychologist who popularized the scientific theory of behaviorism, establishing it as a psychological school. Watson advanced this change in the psychological discipline through his 1913 address at Columbia University, titled Psychology as the Behaviorist Views It. Through his behaviorist approach, Watson conducted research on animal behavior, child rearing, and advertising, as well as conducting the controversial "Little Albert" experiment and the Kerplunk experiment. He was also the editor of Psychological Review from 1910 to 1915. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Watson as the 17th most cited psychologist of the 20th century.

John B. Watson's Published Works

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Published Papers

Conditioned emotional reactions (1920) (1688)
Psychology, from the standpoint of a behaviorist (1919) (678)
Behavior : An Introduction to Comparative Psychology (1915) (337)
Psychological care of infant and child (1928) (298)
The place of the conditioned-reflex in psychology. (1916) (208)
Psychology: From the standpoint of a behaviorist (2nd ed.). (1924) (191)
Image and Affection in Behavior (1913) (113)
Emotional reactions and psychological experimentation. (1917) (109)
Orientation in the white rat (1908) (82)
The ways of behaviorism (1928) (81)
A schematic outline of the emotions. (1919) (53)
The effect of delayed feeding upon learning. (1917) (49)
What the Nursery has to Say About Instincts (1925) (46)
John Broadus Watson. (1936) (43)
Animal Education: An Experimental Study of the Psychical Development of the White Rat, Correlated with the Growth of its Nervous System. (1905) (43)
The battle of behaviorism (1929) (43)
A study of the responses of rodents to monochromatic light. (1913) (42)
Notes on the development of a young monkey. (1913) (42)
Experimental Studies on the Growth of the Emotions (1925) (33)
IS THINKING MERELY ACTION OF LANGUAGE MECHANISMS1? (V.) (1920) (32)
An Attempted formulation of the scope of behavior psychology. (1917) (31)
The Unverbalized in Human Behavior. (1924) (28)
Some experiments bearing upon color vision in monkeys (1909) (27)
The Place of Kinaesthetic, Visceral and Laryngeal Organization in Thinking. (1924) (24)
Watson's 'The Behavior of Noddy and Sooty Terns' (1909) (21)
CONTENT OF A COURSE IN PSYCHOLOGY FOR MEDICAL STUDENTS (1912) (19)
Papers from the department of marine biology of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. Vol. VII, Homing and related activities of birds. The Acquisition of skill in archery (1915) (18)
Psychology as the behaviorist views it, 1913. (1948) (17)
A circular maze with camera lucida attachment. (1914) (16)
Practical and theoretical problems in instinct and habits. (1917) (15)
BEHAVIORISM: A PSYCHOLOGY BASED ON REFLEXES (1926) (14)
A Consensus of Medical Opinion upon Questions Relating to Sex Education and Venereal Disease Campaigns. (1920) (13)
FURTHER DATA ON THE HOMING SENSE OF NODDY AND SOOTY TERNS. (1910) (13)
Recent Experiments on how We Lose and Change our Emotional Equipment (1925) (13)
The need of an experimental station for the study of certain problems in animal behavior. (1906) (12)
Contributions to the Study of the Behavior of Lower Organisms. (1905) (11)
Orientation in the White Rat (1908) (10)
Psychology and behavior. (1914) (9)
The Philosophy of Kant: As Contained in Extracts from His Own Writings (1888) (9)
The unconscious of the behaviorist. (1927) (9)
The effect of the bearing of young upon the body‐weight and the weight of the central nervous system of the female white rat (1905) (9)
Does Holt Follow Freud (1917) (8)
Aristotle's Posterior Analytics: II. Induction (1904) (8)
Behaviourism: A Psychology Based on Reflex-action (1926) (7)
Recent Experiments with Homing Birds. (1915) (6)
Literature for 1910 on the behavior of vertebrates. (1911) (5)
Plato and Protagoras (1907) (5)
The interpretation of religious experience (1912) (5)
The Idealism of Edward Caird: II. (1909) (4)
Light and the behavior of lower organisms. (1911) (4)
An Outline of Philosophy. (1899) (4)
The Animal Mind (1908) (4)
Literature for 1911 on the behavior of vertebrates. (1912) (4)
Christianity and Idealism. (1898) (4)
The Philosophical Basis Of Religion (1907) (4)
The heart or the intellect. (1928) (3)
The Problem of Hegel (1894) (3)
Hereditary modes of response: Emotions. (1919) (3)
What is behaviorism? : the old and new psychology contrasted (1924) (3)
Color sensitivity of the peripheral retina. (1905) (2)
Literature for 1912 on the behavior of vertebrates. (1913) (2)
The Metaphysics of Experience. (1899) (2)
The receptors and their stimuli. (1)
Problems and scope of psychology. (1919) (1)
Aristotle's Posterior Analytics: I. Demonstration (1904) (1)
The Subconscious.Joseph Jastrow (1907) (1)
Scientific Books: Animal Intelligence (1911) (1)
The Evolution of Animal Intelligence (1912) (1)
Personality : presenting the thesis that our personality is but the out-growth of the habits we form (1925) (1)
Homing and related activities of birds, by J. B. Watson and K. S. Lashley. The acquisition of skill in archery, by K. S. Lashley. (1915) (1)
The abridgment of the learning process. (1914) (0)
Hereditary modes of response: Instinct. (1919) (0)
The Metaphysic of Aristotle. III. (1898) (0)
Metaphysic and Psychology (1893) (0)
The elementary facts about the neuro-physiological basis of action. (1919) (0)
The Absolute and the Time-Process (1895) (0)
Unlearned behavior: "Instinct" (1924) (0)
Smell, taste, and the "common chemical sense" (0)
The structures that make behavior possible (1924) (0)
Fixation of arcs in habit. (1914) (0)
What the nursery has to say about instincts. (1926) (0)
Further experiments and observations on how we acquire, shift and lose our emotional life (1925) (0)
The Conflict of Asbolutism and Realism (1924) (0)
Man and beast. (1914) (0)
Cutaneous, organic, and kinæsthetic senses. (1914) (0)
Some problems enumerated. (0)
The Critical Philosophy and Idealism (1892) (0)
The Persuit of pleasure. (1901) (0)
An outline of philosophy with notes historical and critical (1901) (0)
The organism at work. (0)
Observational and experimental studies upon instinct. (1914) (0)
Auditory and related functions. (1914) (0)
How to grow a personality. (1932) (0)
Personality and its disturbance. (1919) (0)
The church : a symposium (1949) (0)
ESTATE OF JOHN BOYD WATSON (0)
Bosanquet on Mind and the Absolute (1925) (0)
The genesis and retention of explicit and implicit language habits. (1919) (0)
The Birth Equipment of the Human Being. (1950) (0)
The New "Ethical" Philosophy (1899) (0)
The organs of response: Muscles and glands. (0)
Reading 10: Little Emotional Albert (0)
Chapter Ii Review of Related Literature Conation: a Conceptual Framework Table 1 Stages of Striving/conation Cycle Steps and Stages of Willing Compared Stages of Striving Steps in the Conation Cycle Stages of Willing Conative Domain (0)
Functional motor abnormalities (continued). (1927) (0)
Proportions of steps and staircases (0)
How to study human behavior : analyzing psychological problems (0)
Concerning the origin of instincts. (1914) (0)
The Evolution of Animal Intelligence . By S. J. Holmes. New York, Henry Holt. 1911. Pp. iii+ 296. $2.75. (1912) (0)
Animal Intelligence . By Professor E. L. Thorndike, Columbia University. New York, The Macmillan Co. 1911. Pp. viii + 297. $1.60 net. (1911) (0)
The Philosophy of Spinoza. (1895) (0)
Talking and thinking : which, when rightly understood, go far in breaking down the fiction that there is any such thing as 'mental' life (1925) (0)
Homing and related activities of birds : The aquisision of skill in archery. [&c.] (0)
The Philosophy of John Stuart Mill, as Contained in Extracts From His Own Writings (1891) (0)
The genesis and retention of explicit bodily habits. (0)
Ultraviolet helmet. (1960) (0)
On the subject of talent, tendencies and the inheritance of all so-called 'mental' traits (1925) (0)
A general survey of the field and some experimental studies (1925) (0)
Do we always think in words or does our whole body do the thinking (1925) (0)
The limits of training in animals. (1914) (0)
Watson and Lashley on Homing and Related Activities of Birds (1916) (0)
The Philosophy of Plotinus (1928) (0)
The experimental study of habit formation. (0)
Unlearned behavior: "Emotions" (1924) (0)

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