That Time J.B. Watson Ruined Psychiatry, Advertising, and Office Culture

Turns out, we have one guy to blame for a lot!

In addition to writing a child-rearing book positing that all children should be shuttled among different families until they came of age and they should never be touched except perhaps a pat on the head for a job particularly well done, John Watson invented behaviorism; the coffee break; fear-based marketing; and the sense that all employees should subjugate their lives for their companies.

He was also at the center of a remarkable divorce, one that found his wife turning into a regular Nancy Drew and stealing love letters, then giving the shadiest interviews this side of a Drag Race confessional. Take a journey through some truly shocking behavior in this episode of Shocking! Lurid! Tawdry!.

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