In 1920, when she graduated from Vassar College with a degree in psychology, Rosalie Rayner took a coveted position at the Johns Hopkins research lab to assist charismatic John B. Watson, the man who pioneered behaviorist psychology. Together, Watson and Rayner conducted experiments on hundreds of babies to prove behaviorist principles of nurture over nature. […]

In 1920, when she graduated from Vassar College with a degree in psychology, Rosalie Rayner took a coveted position at the Johns Hopkins research lab to assist charismatic John B. Watson, the man who pioneered behaviorist psychology. Together, Watson and Rayner conducted experiments on hundreds of babies to prove behaviorist principles of nurture over nature. […]

Day 7: It’s the seventh day of the 12 Days of Random House Library Marketing Giveaway and there are  amazing stacks of books making bella sculptures around our desks just waiting to be sent your way when our giveaway ends. Between these book sculptures there are seven-swans-a-swimming. It’s truly beautiful, but not as impressive as […]