About Behaviorism, Chapter 10: The Inner World of Motivation and Emotion, Quote 9

“The extraordinary appeal of inner causes and the accompanying neglect of environmental histories and current setting must be due to more than a linguistic practice. I suggest that it has the appeal of the arcane, the occult, the hermetic, the magical—those mysteries which have held so important a position in the history of human thought . . . It is the appeal still enjoyed by astrology, numerology, parapsychology, and psychical research.” (p.178)

Subscribe to RSS feed here