Little Albert, the famous experiment by John Watson, textbook material when you are discussing operant conditioning. But who was Albert? Who was the poor little boy in this video?
In 2009 Beck published a paper claiming he had discovered that this boy was actually Douglas Merritte. But in a great longread, Tom Bartlett explains that there is a second option, maybe William A. Barger could have been the baby. The A stands for… Albert.