In spite of the interest and importance of the question of the acquisition, modification, and loss of emotional reactions, there has been surprisingly little experimental work concerned with the topic. H. B. English (12) remarked: "Upon the pioneer experiments of Watson and Rayner on the conditioned emotional response there has been erected a towering edifice of theory; the factual basis for the edifice remains appallingly slight.
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