In the famous Little Albert experiment, a nearly 9-month-old baby is shown a white rat. The rat crawls up to the baby, on him, and around him.

At first, Albert reacted with playful curiosity to soft animals like a rabbit and the white rat. “At no time did this infant ever show fear in any situation,” writes Watson, who was 80 when he ...

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For a study published in 1920, researchers John B. Watson and Rosalie Rayner, of Johns Hopkins University, trained a baby boy they called Albert to irrationally fear a white rat and other objects.

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