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“Men are built, not born.... Give me the baby, and I'll make it climb and use its hands in constructing buildings of stone or wood.... I'll make it a thief, a gunman or a dope fiend. The possibilities of shaping in any direction are almost endless.”

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John B. Watson was a prominent psychologist born on January 9, 1878, and died on September 25, 1958. He is considered one of the founders of behaviorism in psychology and had a profound impact on the development of the field. more

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