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Readings for Little Albert Assignment
- Beck, H. P., Levinson, S., & Irons, G. (2009). Finding Little Albert: A journey to John B Watson’s infant laboratory. American Psychologist, 64(7), 605–614. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0017234
- Fridlund, A. J., Beck, H. P., Goldie, W. D., & Irons, G. (2012). Little Albert: A neurologically impaired child. History of Psychology, 15(4), 302–327. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0026720
- Harris, B. (1979). Whatever happened to little Albert? American Psychologist, 34(2), 151–160. https://doi.org/10.1037/0003-066X.34.2.151
- Powell, R. A. (2011). Research notes: Little Albert, lost or found: Further difficulties with the Douglas Merritte hypothesis. History of Psychology, 14(1), 106–107. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0022471b
- Powell, R. A., Digdon, N., Harris, B., & Smithson, C. (2014). Correcting the record on Watson, Rayner, and Little Albert: Albert Barger as 'Psychology’s lost boy’. American Psychologist, 69(6), 600–611. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0036854