Further reading for Part 3: Developmental

psychology
Innocence lost: the story of Genie
Brown, R. and Herrnstein, R. (1975) Psychology. Boston: Little, Brown.
Curtiss, S. (1977) Genie: A Psycholinguistic Study of a Modern-Day ‘Wild Child’.
New York: Academic Press.
Eimas, P. (1985) ‘Speech perception in early infancy’. Scientific American, 252,
46–52.
Jones, P. (1995) ‘Contradictions and unanswered questions in the Genie case: a
fresh look at the linguistic evidence’. Language and Communication 15, 261–80.
Lenneberg, E. (1967) Biological Foundations of Language. New York: Wiley.
Rymer, R. (1993) Genie: A Scientific Tragedy. New York: HarperCollins. (The
classic – well worth reading.)
Sampson, G. (1997) Educating Eve. London: Cassell.

The boy who was never a girl: the story of David Reimer
(1997) ‘Sex reassignment at birth: a long term review and clinical implications’.
Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, 151, 298–304.
Beh, H. and Diamond, M. (2000) ‘An emerging ethical and medical dilemma:
should physicians perform sex assignment on infants with ambiguous genitalia?’
Michigan Journal of Gender and Law, 7 (1), 1–63.
Colapinto, J. (2000) As Nature Made Him: The Boy who was Raised a Girl. New
York: HarperCollins. (Fantastic comprehensive book written in collaboration with
David Reimer.)
Diamond, M. (1965) ‘A critical evaluation of the ontogeny of human sexual
behavior’. Quarterly Review of Biology, 40 (2), June.
Diamond, M. (1982) ‘Sexual identity, monozygotic twins reared in discordant sex
roles and a BBC follow-up’. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 11 (2), 181–5.
Diamond, M. (1997) ‘Sexual identity and sexual orientation in children with
traumatized or ambiguous genitalia’. Journal of Sex Research, 34 (2), 199–211.
Diamond, M. and Sigmundson, K. (1997) ‘Sex reassignment at birth: a long-term
review and clinical implications. Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine,
151 (March).
Le Vay, S. (1991) ‘A difference in the hypothalamic structure between
heterosexual and homosexual men’. Science, 253, 1034–7.
Reilly, J.M. and Woodhouse, C.R. (1989) ‘Small penis and the male sexual role’.
Journal of Urology, 142, 569–72.
Reiner, W.G. (1996) ‘Case study: sex reassignment in a teenage girl’. Journal of
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 35, 799–803.
Swaab, D.F. and Fliers, E. (1985) ‘A sexually dimorphic nucleus in the human
brain’. Science, 228, 1112–15.

The Wild Boy of Aveyron: the story of Victor

Bettelheim, B. (1967) The Empty Fortress. New York: Free Press.
Candland, D.K. (1993) Feral Children and Clever Animals: Reflections on Human
Nature. Oxford University Press. (The case of two girls called Amala and Kamala
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found in India in 1920 living with wolves is perhaps equally famous and reported
here.)
Lane, H. (1976) The Wild Boy of Aveyron. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University
Press. (This includes detailed verbatim accounts of the case.)
Shattuck, R. (1980) The Forbidden Experiment. London: Quartet. (The best
account to read.)

Two little boys: the story of Little Albert and Little Peter
Buckley, K.W. (1982). ‘The selling of a psychologist: John Broadus Watson and the
application of behavioral techniques to advertising’. Journal of the History of the
Behavioral Sciences, 18, 207–21.
Gross, R.D. (2003) Key Studies in Psychology, 4th edition. London: Hodder &
Stoughton.
Harris, B. (1979) ‘Whatever happened to Little Albert?’ American Psychologist, 34
(2), 151–60.
Hilgard, E. and Maquis, D. (1940) Conditioning and Learning. Appleton-Century.
New York.
Jones, M.C (1924) ‘A laboratory study of fear: the case of Peter’. Pedagogical
Seminary, 31, pp. 308–15.
Jones, M.C. (1924) ‘Elimination of children's fears’. Journal of Experimental
Psychology, 7, 381–90.
Samuelson, F. (1980) ‘J.B. Watson’s Little Albert, Cyril Burt’s twins and the need
for a critical science’. American Psychologist, 35 (7), 619-625.
Watson, J. B., & Watson, R. R. (1921) ‘Studies in infant psychology’. Scientific
Monthly, 13, 493–515.
Watson, J.B. (1924) Behaviorism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Watson, J.B. and Rayner, R. (1920) ‘Conditioned emotional reactions’. Journal of
Experimental Psychology, 3 (1), 1–14.
Wolpe, J. (1958). Psychotherapy by Reciprocal Inhibition. Stanford: Stanford
University Press.

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