# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-b-watson
# Generated: 2026-09-03T12:23:29.006Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-b-watson"
name: "John B. Watson"
slug: "john-b-watson"
description: "He built modern psychology on a premise that infuriated humanists: that thoughts and feelings don't matter, only what you can see and measure. Watson stripped the mind from the science of behavior, then proved it with a baby and a white rat."
tagline: "American psychologist (1878"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Broadus_Watson.JPG"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1878-01-09"
deathDate: "1958-09-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           57.84
  momentum:             1.58313679245283
  historical:           24.569592
  currentAttention:     8.795204402515724
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
tags:
  - name: "Academics"
    slug: "academics"
  - name: "Politician"
    slug: "politician"
  - name: "Politics"
    slug: "politics"
  - name: "Psychology"
    slug: "psychology"
  - name: "United States"
    slug: "united-states"
  - name: "Americas"
    slug: "americas"
  - name: "20th Century"
    slug: "20th-century"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q217477"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Watson"
    title: "Wikipedia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pantheon.world/profile/person/John%20B.%20Watson"
    title: "Pantheon 2.0"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Watson"
    title: "John B. Watson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A8%DB%8C._%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "جان بی. واتسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Con_Votson"
    title: "Con Votson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%91%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B4%D1%8D%D1%81_%D0%A3%D0%BE%D1%82%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD"
    title: "Джон Бродэс Уотсан"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%91._%D0%A3%D0%BE%D1%82%D1%81%D1%8A%D0%BD"
    title: "Джон Б. Уотсън"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Broadus_Watson"
    title: "John Broadus Watson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Watson"
    title: "John Watson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Broadus_Watson"
    title: "John Broadus Watson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Watson"
    title: "John B. Watson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A4%CE%B6%CE%BF%CE%BD_%CE%93%CE%BF%CF%85%CE%AC%CF%84%CF%83%CE%BF%CE%BD_(%CF%88%CF%85%CF%87%CE%BF%CE%BB%CF%8C%CE%B3%CE%BF%CF%82)"
    title: "Τζον Γουάτσον (ψυχολόγος)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Watson"
    title: "John Watson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Watson"
    title: "John B. Watson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Watson_(ps%C3%BChholoog)"
    title: "John Watson (psühholoog)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Broadus_Watson"
    title: "John Broadus Watson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A8%DB%8C._%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "جان بی. واتسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Broadus_Watson"
    title: "John Broadus Watson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Broadus_Watson"
    title: "John Broadus Watson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Watson"
    title: "John B. Watson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AA%9C%E0%AB%87._%E0%AA%AC%E0%AB%80._%E0%AA%B5%E0%AB%8B%E0%AA%9F%E0%AA%B8%E0%AA%A8"
    title: "જે. બી. વોટસન"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%92'%D7%95%D7%9F_%D7%91._%D7%95%D7%95%D7%98%D7%A1%D7%95%D7%9F"
    title: "ג'ון ב. ווטסון"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%9C%E0%A5%89%E0%A4%A8_%E0%A4%AC%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%9F%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%A8"
    title: "जॉन बी वाट्सन"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Watson"
    title: "John B. Watson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_B._Watson"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Watson"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://pl.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Watson"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B7%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "جون واطسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B7%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "جون واطسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  John Broadus Watson was born January 9, 1878, and by 1913 had drawn a line in the sand at Columbia University with an address that redefined psychology as the study of observable behavior alone. He edited Psychological Review from 1910 to 1915 while running experiments that ranged from animal studies to the infamous "Little Albert" test, conditioning an infant to fear a white rat. After psychology, he turned the same principles to advertising and child-rearing advice. A 2002 survey ranked him the 17th most cited psychologist of the 20th century. He died September 25, 1958, having spent decades watching behaviorism—his creation—split the field he'd tried to unify.