On 22 Sep 2013 at 19:12, Joan Warmbold wrote: > I will need to add some comments to Wikipedia as McConnell was an > extremely popular professor at the University of Michigan with > students standing in line to get into his lecture classes. He cared > deeply about the art and science of teaching. He also wrote an > extremely stimulating and popular Introductory Psychology text. It > sold so well that the publishers kept selling it under his name about > 4-6 years after his death.
Stimulating indeed, not to mention titillating. McConnell was responsible for a widely-accepted story (as indicated by its inclusion in more than 200 psychology textbooks) that John B.Watson had sex with Rosalie Rayner, who was then his graduate student. They were supposed to have done it in his laboratory while hooked up to a kymograph which recorded their physiological responses. Great story. Not true. http://www.apa.org/monitor/2012/10/scandal.aspx Stephen -------------------------------------------- Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology, Emeritus Bishop's University Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada e-mail: sblack at ubishops.ca --------------------------------------------- --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=28043 or send a blank email to leave-28043-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
