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" Psychology has failed signally during the fifty odd years of its existence as an experimental discipline to make its place in the world as an undisputed natural science. "
Nature - Page 85
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Foundations of Feminism: A Critique

Avrom Barnett - Feminism - 1921 - 340 pages
...Holt, 1914.: : 98 FOUNDATIONS OF FEMINISM Hopkins University, "has failed signally during the fifty-odd years of its existence as an experimental discipline...place in the world as an undisputed natural science." What does actually occur when we turn to a modern work on sex properties and differences is this: Suppose...
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Foundations of Feminism: A Critique

Avrom Barnett - Feminism - 1921 - 276 pages
..."Psychology," writes John B. Watson 18 of Johns Hopkins University, "has failed signally during the fifty-odd years of its existence as an experimental discipline...place in the world as an undisputed natural science." What does actually occur when we turn to a modern work on sex properties and differences is this: Suppose...
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The Monist, Volume 32

Paul Carus - Electronic journals - 1922 - 652 pages
...against introspective psychology as a science in the following sentences (Behavior, pp. 6, 26, 27) : "Psychology has failed signally during the fifty odd...place in the world as an undisputed natural science." "It has enmeshed itself in a series of speculative questions which . . . are not open to experimental...
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Psychology as Science: Its Problems and Points of View

Harry Porter Weld - Psychology - 1928 - 324 pages
...also declare, as indeed Comte had declared a century before, that " psychology has failed signally ... to make its place in the world as an undisputed natural science," 2 and that the reason for its failure was largely its limitation of subject matter and choice of method....
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Behavior: An Introduction to Comparative Psychology

John Broadus Watson - Behaviorism (Psychology) - 1914 - 462 pages
...method are designed to throw such facts into relief, they are thought of in just as disparaging a way. Psychology has failed signally during the fifty odd...place in the world as an undisputed natural science. Psychology, as it is generally thought of, has something esoteric in its methods. If you fail to reproduce...
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Washington University Studies, Volumes 6-7

Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.) - Literature - 1919 - 498 pages
...now, it appears, adjust ourselves to the idea of a psychology without a consciousness. In the words of Prof. Watson, "Psychology has failed signally during...place in the world as an undisputed natural science," so that "the time seems to have come when psychology must discard all reference to consciousness; when...
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The Norton History of the Human Sciences

Roger Smith - Science - 1997 - 1074 pages
...would, he argued, replace a psychology that ‘has failed signally, I believe, during the fiftyodd years of its existence as an experimental discipline...place in the world as an undisputed natural science'. 7 The negative side of this polemic was well grounded. Experimental psychology on the German pattern,...
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The Norton History of the Human Sciences

Roger Smith - Social sciences - 1997 - 1070 pages
...would, he argued, replace a psychology that ‘has failed signally, I believe, during the fiftyodd years of its existence as an experimental discipline...place in the world as an undisputed natural science'. 7 The negative side of this polemic was well grounded. Experimental psychology on the German pattern,...
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Studies, Volumes 7-8

Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.) - 1919 - 802 pages
...now, it appears, adjust ourselves to the idea of a psychology without a consciousness. In the words of Prof. Watson, "Psychology has failed signally during...place in the world as an undisputed natural science," so that "the time seems to have come when psychology must discard all reference to consciousness; when...
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The Manhattan Quarterly, Volume 12

Universities and colleges - 1916 - 344 pages
...to conceal his dissatisfaction with most of the work done in the science to which he is devoted. " Psychology has failed signally during the fifty odd...place in the world as an undisputed natural science. . . . The time seems to have come when psychology must discard all reference to consciousness [sic];...
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