Branch of psychology sorts studies by the area of psychology they were designed to test. Wikipedia states, "An experiment is a procedure carried out to support or refute a hypothesis, or determine the efficacy or likelihood of something previously untried," and each study belongs to whichever branch first posed that hypothesis. This grouping keeps studies with a shared research question together.
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Era of Emergence Branch of Psychology
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1. Wikipedia: Clinical psychology
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The field is generally considered to have begun in 1896 with the opening of the first psychological clinic at the University of Pennsylvania by Lightner Witmer.
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