Ressentiment (French pronunciation: â), in philosophy and psychology, is one of the forms of resentment or hostility. It is the French word for resentment (from Latin intensive prefix 're', and 'sentir' to feel).
Watson's definition of environment/society addresses the idea that nurses have existed in every society, and that a caring attitude is transmitted from generation to generation by the culture of the nursing profession as a unique way of coping with its environment.
John Watson was an American psychologist who is considered the father of the psychological school of behaviorism. Behaviorism, according to Watson, was the science of observable behavior. In the fledgling field of psychology, this was a new idea that went against Freud and popular theories about the subconscious, which Watson felt were too subjective.