John Broadus Watson
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<b>John Broadus Watson</b> (January 9, 1878 – September 25, 1958) was an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States">American</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychology" title="Psychology">psychologist</a> who established the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_psychological_schools" title="List of psychological schools">psychological school</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behaviorism" title="Behaviorism">behaviorism</a>.
Watson was the maternal grandfather of American, Emmy Award winning actress <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariette_Hartley" title="Mariette Hartley">Mariette Hartley</a>, who suffered with psychological issues she attributed to her being raised with her grandfather's theories. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Breaking-Silence-Mariette-Hartley/dp/0615316948">http://www.amazon.com/Breaking-Silence-Mariette-Hartley/dp/0615316948</a> <b>excerpt attached</b>
Despite his poor academic performance and having been arrested twice during high school (first for fighting with African Americans, then for discharging firearms within city limits),<sup id="cite_ref-Buckley.2C_Kerry_W.1989_7-2"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B.Watson#cite_note-Buckley.2C_Kerry_W.1989-7">[7]</a></sup> Watson was able to use his mother's connections to gain admission to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furman_University" title="Furman University">Furman University</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenville,South_Carolina" title="Greenville, South Carolina">Greenville, South Carolina</a>. Watson considered himself to be a poor student.
After petitioning the President of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Chicago" title="University of Chicago">University of Chicago</a>, Watson entered the university. His successful petition to the president of the University of Chicago was central to his ascent in the psychology world. He began studying philosophy under <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dewey" title="John Dewey">John Dewey</a> on the recommendation of Furman professor, Gordon Moore.<sup id="cite_ref-Hergenhahn_12-0"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Watson#cite_note-Hergenhahn-12">[12]</a></sup> The combined influence of Dewey, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Rowland_Angell" title="James Rowland Angell">James Rowland Angell</a>, Henry Herbert Donaldson and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Loeb" title="Jacques Loeb">Jacques Loeb</a> led Watson to develop a highly descriptive, objective approach to the analysis of behavior that he would later call "behaviorism."
Thanks to contacts provided by an academic colleague, E. B. Titchener, Watson subsequently began working for U.S. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advertising_agency" title="Advertising agency">advertising agency</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Walter_Thompson" title="J. Walter Thompson">J. Walter Thompson</a>. He learned the advertising business' many facets at ground level, including a stint working as a shoe salesman in an upscale department store. Despite this modest start, in less than two years Watson had risen to a vice-presidency at Thompson. His executive's salary, plus bonuses from various successful ad campaigns, resulted in an income many times higher than his academic salary.
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