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Reevaluating the initial impact of John Broadus Watson on American psychology: The necessity of comparative parameters (2019)

Araujo, Saulo de Freitas (Author)
Saraiva, Fernando Tavares (Author)
Neto, Marcus Bentes de Carvalho (Author)

Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
Volume: 55
Issue: 2
Pages: 122-138

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/jhbs.21962

URI: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jhbs.21962

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Research methods Psychology Behaviorism 20th century, early United States Watson, John Broadus

In recent decades, various studies have challenged the traditional view that John Broadus Watson's Behaviorist Manifesto prompted a psychological revolution. However, methodological hindrances underlie all these attempts to evaluate the impact of Watson's study, such as the absence of comparative parameters. This article remedies this problem by conducting a comparative citation analysis involving Watson and eight other representative psychologists of the time: J. R. Angell, H. Carr, J. M. Cattell, J. Dewey, G. S. Hall, W. James, E. L. Thorndike, and E. B. Titchener. Eight important American journals were scrutinized for the period between 1903 and 1923, a decade before and a decade after the publication of Watson's Manifesto. The results suggest that even if Watson's study cannot be taken as revolutionary, it had an impact between 1914 and 1923 that was close to Dewey's, Titchener's, and Thorndike's and higher than Angell's, Carr's, Cattell's, and Hall's, although distant from James's. Finally, some methodological implications of this study are discussed.

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