They also embarked on a scandalous affair that cost them both their jobs - and recast the sparkling young Rosalie Rayner, scientist and thinker, as Mrs. Together, Watson and Rayner conducted controversial experiments on hundreds of babies to prove behaviorist principles. Intelligent, beautiful, and unflappable, she won a coveted research position at Johns Hopkins assisting the charismatic celebrity psychologist John B. In 1920, when she graduated from Vassar College, Rayner was ready to make her mark on the world. For their dangerous and “mawkish” impulses to kiss and hug their child, “most mothers should be indicted for psychological murder.” Behave is the story of Rosalie Rayner, Watson’s ambitious young wife and the mother of two of his children.
Watson, whose 1928 parenting guide was revered as the child-rearing bible. “The mother begins to destroy the child the moment it’s born,” wrote the founder of behaviorist psychology, John B. The book is described on the publishers website: A trailer for the book is featured above and a recent Kirkus review of Behave can be found here. That book, now titled Behave, has just been published by SoHo Press. Way back in the Spring of 2013 we brought you news that author Andromeda Romano-Lax was working on a fictionalized account of the life of psychologist Rosalie Rayner Watson.
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