Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920) was a German physiologist, philosopher and professor widely regarded as the father of experimental psychology; he was the first person to call himself a psychologist, distinguishing psychology as a science from philosophy and biology. In 1879 at Leipzig he opened the first laboratory exclusively devoted to psychological studies, an event marking the birth of psychology as an independent field, and became a pioneer of cultural psychology.
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BirthplaceNeckarau near Mannheim, Grand Duchy of Baden, German Confederation 1 Death PlaceGrossbothen, Saxony, Germany 1 Nationality / Culture Defining ContributionFounded the first laboratory devoted exclusively to psychological studies, marking the birth of psychology as an independent scientific field. 1 Notable WorkFounding of the first psychology laboratory, University of Leipzig (1879) 1 Connections
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Studied under Wundt in Leipzig before bringing his experimental methods to the United States and founding structuralism.
Founded the first formal psychology laboratory, generally credited as the founder of experimental psychology.
His 1879 Leipzig laboratory is the conventional founding event the history of psychology is dated from.
Studied under Wundt at Leipzig before pioneering applied and forensic psychology in the United States.
Studied experimental psychology under Wundt at Leipzig before founding Japan's first psychology laboratory.
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Schools Founded
Why this is disputed. Wundt is recorded here as founder for his 1879 Leipzig laboratory, the institutional origin structuralism grew from. The atlas's own cited source states plainly that his student Edward B. Titchener, not Wundt, is credited for the theory of structuralism, since Titchener named the school and departed from Wundt's own voluntarism. Titchener is not yet a minted entity in this atlas (system.EntityRequest filed), so the alternate founder cannot be linked as its own edge; recorded here and as a dissent instead.
Source Wikipedia: Structural psychology
Additional Source SimplyPsychology: Structuralismn/a
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Germany, nationality there.
- Also in Science Atlas: Wilhelm Wundt, the same subject.
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1. Wikipedia: Wilhelm Wundt
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He is widely regarded as the father of experimental psychology.
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31 August 1920
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Wundt opened the first laboratory ever to be exclusively devoted to psychological studies
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SimplyPsychology: Structuralism
Simply PsychologySchools Founded: Structuralism, n/aQuote, Schools Founded: Structuralism, n/a
Wilhelm Wundt pioneered its experimental methods in Germany. But it was his student, Edward B. Titchener, who named structuralism as a distinct system
Wikipedia: Structural psychology
Wikimedia FoundationSchools Founded: Structuralism, Lead section, founder-attribution sentence (edge)Quote, Schools Founded: Structuralism, Lead section, founder-attribution sentence (edge)
Edward B. Titchener is credited for the theory of structuralism. It is considered to be the first 'school' of psychology.
Dissenting Readings (1 dissenting reading)
Schools Founded: Structuralism
The atlas records Wilhelm Wundt as structuralism's founder, dated 1879. Wundt founded the Leipzig laboratory that year, but the atlas's own cited source, Wikipedia's article on structural psychology, states plainly that it is Wundt's student Edward B. Titchener who is credited for the theory of structuralism, since Titchener named the school and diverged from Wundt's own voluntarism (Titchener rejected Wundt's notions of apperception and creative synthesis). Titchener is not yet a minted psychologist entity in this atlas; recorded here as a dissent, with both the founded-by edge and the founded-year fact marked debated, rather than presenting Wundt/1879 as a settled account of structuralism's own founding.
A dissenting reading, from an independent laneWikipedia: Structural psychology, Wikimedia Foundation
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