ABSTRACT
The behaviorist even goes further and investigates his colleagues' everyday behavior. The complicated nature of all the adult responses makes it hopeless for the behaviorist to begin his study of emotion upon adults. The thought is that notwithstanding the fact that in all emotional responses there are overt factors such as the movement of the eyes and the arms and the legs and the trunk, visceral and glandular factors predominate. The ‘cold sweat’ of fear, the ‘bursting heart,’ the ‘bowed head’ in apathy and grief, the ‘exuberance of youth,’ the ‘palpitating heart’ of the swain or maiden, are more than mere literary expressions; they are bits of genuine observation. Emotional responses of parents to children masquerading under the guise of natural affection. Mrs. Mary Cover Jones reports that in the work with the older children at the Heckscher Foundation, thefrog especially, when its suddenly jumps, is the mostpotent stimulus of all in bringing out fear reactions.
