Watson undoubtedly DID have an affair with Rosalie Rayner. The untrue bit (that McConnell claimed to have learned from a former colleague of Watson's at Johns Hopkins) is that he used those, um, events to conduct research on the physiology of sex.
Chris --- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada [email protected] http://www.yorku.ca/christo/ ========================= On 2013-09-23, at 2:54 PM, [email protected] wrote: > On 22 Sep 2013 at 19:12, Joan Warmbold wrote: > >> I will need to add some comments to Wikipedia as McConnell was an >> extremely popular professor at the University of Michigan with >> students standing in line to get into his lecture classes. He cared >> deeply about the art and science of teaching. He also wrote an >> extremely stimulating and popular Introductory Psychology text. It >> sold so well that the publishers kept selling it under his name about >> 4-6 years after his death. > > > Stimulating indeed, not to mention titillating. McConnell was > responsible for a widely-accepted story (as indicated by its > inclusion in more than 200 psychology textbooks) that John B.Watson > had sex with Rosalie Rayner, who was then his graduate student. > > They were supposed to have done it in his laboratory while hooked up > to a kymograph which recorded their physiological responses. > > Great story. Not true. > > http://www.apa.org/monitor/2012/10/scandal.aspx > > Stephen > > -------------------------------------------- > Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. > Professor of Psychology, Emeritus > Bishop's University > Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada > e-mail: sblack at ubishops.ca > --------------------------------------------- > > > --- > You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. > To unsubscribe click here: > http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=430248.781165b5ef80a3cd2b14721caf62bd92&n=T&l=tips&o=28043 > or send a blank email to > leave-28043-430248.781165b5ef80a3cd2b14721caf62b...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=28045 or send a blank email to leave-28045-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
