Author: J. B. Watson

Cited by

• Paul Hoffman (3)
  • IN: The Beating of His Wings (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed and my own specific world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select -- a doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief, and yes, even into a beggar-man and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations and race of his ancestors.
    FROM: What the nursery has to say about instincts', Psychologies of 1925, (1925), Book, US
  • IN: The Last Four Things (2011) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specific world to bring them up in, and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select---a doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief and, yes, even into a beggar-man and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations and race of his ancestors.
    FROM: Psychologies of 1925, (1926), Lecture, US