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John B. Watson

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Also known as John Broadus Watson, John Watson

American psychologist (1878

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John Broadus Watson was an author born in 1878 and died in 1958. He is listed as a person in the MusicBrainz database. His works include *Psychology as the behaviorist views it*, *Animal education*, *行為主義的心理學*, *Le behaviorisme*, and *Present economic conditions*. He is credited with 33 works in the Open Library and five works in Crossref.

Watson is recognized in the American Academy Arts Sciences collection. He is referenced by 628 other encyclopedia articles. On Last.fm, he has two listeners and a playcount of three.

Synthesized by Vinony from 15 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born
1878
Died
1958
Works
33

Top works

  • Psychology as the behaviorist views it
  • Animal education
  • 行為主義的心理學
  • Le behaviorisme
  • Present economic conditions

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
2
Total plays
3

<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/John+B.+Watson">Read more on Last.fm</a>

via Last.fm · John B. Watson

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple

    · 1996 · cited 204,297x

  2. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

    · 2021 · cited 43,514x

  3. Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology

    · 2000 · cited 36,878x

  4. Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment

    · 2007 · cited 35,530x

  5. Development and validation of brief measures of positive and negative affect: The PANAS scales.

    · 1988 · cited 29,272x

via Crossref · CC0

Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Family name
Watson
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Greenville
Place of death
New York City
Occupation
politician
Languages spoken
English language
Religion
Christian
Doctoral advisor
James Rowland Angell
Student of
John Dewey
Doctoral student
Karl Lashley
Field of work
psychology
Image
John Broadus Watson.JPG
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date of birth
1878-01-09
date of death
1958-09-25
name in native language
John Tolet
Commons category
John Broadus Watson
influenced by
Ivan Pavlov
different from
John Watson
on focus list of Wikimedia project
Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
Sources (4)

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Encyclopedic overview

John Broadus Watson (January 9, 1878 – September 25, 1958) 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.

Early life

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