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Originally Posted by ArtieSwimsOn
I did... But my book also said someone tracked him down as an adult and he had no knowledge of his role in psychology and was no worse for it, I so hope that's true!
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these people are right on Little Albert's identity, which is uncertain, he disliked animals all his life, perhaps as a result of the experiment.
I would call the Little Albert experiment a form of torture. The marshmallow kids were just revealing whether they could accept delayed gratification. Little Albert's view of the world was actually altered at least temporarily by the experiment.