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Article: Emmanuil S. Enchmen - a Soviet behaviorist and the commonality of 'Zeitgeist.'
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- The Psychological Record
- Article date:
- September 22, 1995
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Behaviorism is one of the "schools" of psychology that emerged during the second decade of the twentieth century. In opposition to the then dominating Wundtian experimental psychology with its emphasis on the analysis of immediate conscious experience, behaviorism proposed the objective study of animal and human activity (Boring, 1950).
It appears that behaviorism was primarily an American school of psychology, yet, in the Soviet Union, the biologist Emmanuil S. Enchmen (1920) proposed a behavioristic theory named "t. n. b.," an acronym for "theory of new biology." The theory was popular among Soviet university students in the early 1920s until it was declared ...