Psychology as the Behaviorist Views It

Watson, John B. "Psychology as the Behaviorist Views It." The Psychological Review 20 (March 1913): 158-77.

Classic statement of the Behaviorist view that "the prediction and control of behavior" is "psychology's sole task." See also JBW, Psychology from the Standpoint of a Behaviorist (1919), and his work for lay readers, Behaviorism (1924, 1925; rev. edn. 1930). JBW's name is preserved and much of his philosophy followed in the World State of A. Huxley's Brave New World (q.v., under Fiction). See this Category, the entry for B. F. Skinner.