ABSTRACT
In Europe, academic psychologists had been reading Jean Piaget's books since the 1920s, primarily in their original French versions. In the Netherlands, Piaget's theories were met with some resistance. In the 1960s, widespread interest arose among readers in the United States for works by Jean Piaget and his colleagues. Some historians of psychology see the rapid rise in the popularity of Piaget's books as playing a part in the "cognitive revolution" against the dominance of behaviorism. In the Piagetian learning experiments of the 1960s, all experimenters behaved as they had been instructed to do in their studies, such as when testing a person with the Stanford-Binet intelligence scales. In the Genevan learning experiments, the experimenter's questions were formulated as neutral as in the published protocols of Piaget's famous dialogues with his own young children, his "clinical method".
