The objective subject: John Broadus Watson, behaviourism, and the progressive era in twentieth-century america, 1900–1950s

• Main Author: Ng, Ping Siang
• Other Authors: Park Hyung Wook
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2024
• Subjects: Arts and Humanities; Psychology
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/174428
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

To date, the discipline of psychology is noted to be a study of mind and behaviour by the American Psychological Association. Yet, almost a century ago, “behaviour” as a tool in studying the human psyche was met with fierce opposition and critique by mainstream American psychologists then. Behaviour...