Psychological experiments have played a crucial role in shaping our understanding of human behaviour. From revealing the complexities of learning and conditioning to exploring the impact of authority ...

Unfortunately, the work on classical conditioning inspired a horrendous experiment on a child, conducted by American psychologists John B. Watson and Rosalie Rayner.

Little Albert was the baby at the heart of one of psychology’s most controversial experiments – now considered “medical misogyny.” For decades nobody knew the identity of the infant, who ...

The “Little Albert” experiment, performed in 1919 by John Watson of Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, was the first to show that a human could be classically conditioned.

In the famous Little Albert experiment, a nearly 9-month-old baby is shown a white rat. The rat crawls up to the baby, on him, and around him. The baby seems interested in the rat and unafraid.