John Broadus Watson (born January 9, 1878 near Greenville, South Carolina; died September 25, 1958 in New York City) was an American psychologist who established the psychological school of behaviorism. He is famous for boasting, facetiously, that he could take any 20 human infants, and by applying behavioural techniques, create whatever kind of person ("beggar, butcherman, thief") he desired. Naturally, he admitted that this claim was far beyond his means--noting, merely, that earlier psychologists had made such claims for decades.
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PS I have never claimed Skinner was a spanking anglo-victorian, but I still think maybe he was.
However, scandinavia has claimed the same for at least 150 years, criminality is going lower and lower, IQ-test scores are improving every year (except for Sweden)
Well, only Sweden does them, as we say in Finland..
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