1878 - 1958
John Broadus Watson (January 9, 1878 – September 25, 1958) was an American psychologist who popularized the scientific theory of behaviorism, establishing it as a psychological school. Watson advanced this change in the psychological discipline through his 1913 address at Columbia University, titled Psychology as the Behaviorist Views It. Through his behaviorist approach, Watson conducted research on animal behavior, child rearing, and advertising, as well as conducting the controversial "Little Albert" experiment and the Kerplunk experiment. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John B. Watson has received more than 1,891,392 page views. His biography is available in 56 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 52 in 2019). John B. Watson is the 17th most popular psychologist (up from 19th in 2019), the 175th most popular biography from United States (up from 218th in 2019) and the 5th most popular American Psychologist.
John B. Watson was most famous for his work with Little Albert. He conducted a study in which he conditioned a child to fear a white rat by pairing it with a loud noise.
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Among psychologists, John B. Watson ranks 17 out of 182. Before him are Wilhelm Wundt, William James, Carl Rogers, Viktor Frankl, Gustave Le Bon, and Anna Freud. After him are Albert Bandura, Edward Thorndike, Kurt Lewin, B. F. Skinner, Lawrence Kohlberg, and Wilhelm Reich.
1832 - 1920
HPI: 81.02
Rank: 11
1842 - 1910
HPI: 80.83
Rank: 12
1902 - 1987
HPI: 80.56
Rank: 13
1905 - 1997
HPI: 80.15
Rank: 14
1841 - 1931
HPI: 79.94
Rank: 15
1895 - 1982
HPI: 79.48
Rank: 16
1878 - 1958
HPI: 78.87
Rank: 17
1925 - Present
HPI: 78.86
Rank: 18
1874 - 1949
HPI: 78.59
Rank: 19
1890 - 1947
HPI: 78.40
Rank: 20
1904 - 1990
HPI: 78.26
Rank: 21
1927 - 1987
HPI: 77.53
Rank: 22
1897 - 1957
HPI: 77.46
Rank: 23
Among people born in 1878, John B. Watson ranks 3. Before him are Janusz Korczak and Lise Meitner. After him are Martin Buber, Reza Shah, Pancho Villa, Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia, Werner von Blomberg, Gustav Stresemann, André Citroën, Robert Walser, and Lucien Febvre. Among people deceased in 1958, John B. Watson ranks 4. Before him are Pope Pius XII, Imre Nagy, and Wolfgang Pauli. After him are Rosalind Franklin, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, Roger Martin du Gard, Maurice de Vlaminck, Clinton Davisson, Ernest Lawrence, Tyrone Power, and Lion Feuchtwanger.
1878 - 1942
HPI: 80.41
Rank: 1
1878 - 1968
HPI: 79.30
Rank: 2
1878 - 1958
HPI: 78.87
Rank: 3
1878 - 1965
HPI: 78.74
Rank: 4
1878 - 1944
HPI: 78.19
Rank: 5
1878 - 1923
HPI: 76.82
Rank: 6
1878 - 1918
HPI: 76.69
Rank: 7
1878 - 1946
HPI: 76.30
Rank: 8
1878 - 1929
HPI: 75.80
Rank: 9
1878 - 1935
HPI: 75.59
Rank: 10
1878 - 1956
HPI: 74.03
Rank: 11
1878 - 1956
HPI: 73.82
Rank: 12
1876 - 1958
HPI: 85.39
Rank: 1
1896 - 1958
HPI: 79.49
Rank: 2
1900 - 1958
HPI: 79.33
Rank: 3
1878 - 1958
HPI: 78.87
Rank: 4
1920 - 1958
HPI: 78.69
Rank: 5
1900 - 1958
HPI: 76.91
Rank: 6
1881 - 1958
HPI: 76.73
Rank: 7
1876 - 1958
HPI: 75.15
Rank: 8
1881 - 1958
HPI: 74.91
Rank: 9
1901 - 1958
HPI: 74.73
Rank: 10
1914 - 1958
HPI: 74.26
Rank: 11
1884 - 1958
HPI: 73.70
Rank: 12
Among people born in United States, John B. Watson ranks 175 out of 15,968. Before him are Thomas Kuhn (1922), John Cage (1912), Bernie Sanders (1941), Tom Selleck (1945), Peter Falk (1927), and Robert Wadlow (1918). After him are Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803), Gene Cernan (1934), Patti Smith (1946), Chuck Berry (1926), Gregory Peck (1916), and Robert F. Kennedy (1925).
1922 - 1996
HPI: 79.04
Rank: 169
1912 - 1992
HPI: 79.02
Rank: 170
1941 - Present
HPI: 78.99
Rank: 171
1945 - Present
HPI: 78.94
Rank: 172
1927 - 2011
HPI: 78.93
Rank: 173
1918 - 1940
HPI: 78.88
Rank: 174
1878 - 1958
HPI: 78.87
Rank: 175
1803 - 1882
HPI: 78.85
Rank: 176
1934 - 2017
HPI: 78.79
Rank: 177
1946 - Present
HPI: 78.78
Rank: 178
1926 - 2017
HPI: 78.77
Rank: 179
1916 - 2003
HPI: 78.76
Rank: 180
1925 - 1968
HPI: 78.74
Rank: 181
Among psychologists born in United States, John B. Watson ranks 5. Before him are Abraham Maslow (1908), John Dewey (1859), William James (1842), and Carl Rogers (1902). After him are Edward Thorndike (1874), B. F. Skinner (1904), Lawrence Kohlberg (1927), Irvin D. Yalom (1931), Paul Ekman (1934), Gordon Allport (1897), and Jerome Bruner (1915).
1908 - 1970
HPI: 83.65
Rank: 1
1859 - 1952
HPI: 82.66
Rank: 2
1842 - 1910
HPI: 80.83
Rank: 3
1902 - 1987
HPI: 80.56
Rank: 4
1878 - 1958
HPI: 78.87
Rank: 5
1874 - 1949
HPI: 78.59
Rank: 6
1904 - 1990
HPI: 78.26
Rank: 7
1927 - 1987
HPI: 77.53
Rank: 8
1931 - Present
HPI: 76.16
Rank: 9
1934 - Present
HPI: 75.50
Rank: 10
1897 - 1967
HPI: 75.25
Rank: 11
1915 - 2016
HPI: 75.23
Rank: 12