American psychologist who founded Behaviorism by declaring that psychology must restrict itself to observable behavior and abandon introspection, consciousness, and mind as scientific objects.
Published the Behaviorist Manifesto (1913) declaring that a truly scientific psychology must study only observable stimulus-response relationships — jettisoning consciousness, introspection, and mental states as unscientific — founding the school that dominated American psychology for 50 years.
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