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Oil on the troubled waves: John Broadus Watson and the ways of behaviorism

A review of mechanical man: John Broadus Watson and the beginnings of behaviorism by Kerry W. Buckley

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Plaud, J.J. Oil on the troubled waves: John Broadus Watson and the ways of behaviorism. Current Psychology 10, 305–310 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02686903

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