Plural of behaviorist; multiple psychologists or scientists who study and subscribe to behaviorist theory.
Regular plural of behaviorist (behavior + -ist + -s). Behaviorists as a group were particularly influential in psychology, education, and animal training from the 1920s onward.
Early behaviorists like Watson made shocking claims that you could raise any child to be anything through conditioning—it sounds extreme now, but behaviorists genuinely believed environment was everything, which led to fascinating (and sometimes problematic) experiments.
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