The norms, values and feelings taught through socialization belong to the superego and the ego is one's conception of oneself in relation to others. Behaviorism takes the opposite view from that of sociobiology. Behaviorists believe that all behaviors are learned. Ivan Pavlov demonstrated that conditioned reflexes could be developed by training a dog to salivate at the sound of a bell. John B. Watson showed that emotions such as fear could also be conditioned.
Feral children are children who have been raised in isolation.
Studies of such children show that the absence of parental love and nurturance damages the individual's ability to become a social being. Studies which compare children reared in orphanages with those reared in traditional families show that the former are more likely to develop emotional problems. Harry Harlow showed that infant monkeys reared apart form other monkeys grew up to be aggressive, violent and incapable of nurturing their own infants. George Herbert Mead believed that the self could emerge only through the use of language. Culture therefore is at the center of the information of the self.