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Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select-doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief and, yes, even beggar-man and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race of his ancestors.

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Watson, John B. Behaviorism. The People's Institute Publishing Company, 1924, ch. 5.

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Watson, John B. Behaviorism. Routledge, 2017, ch. 5.

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