Wilhelm Wundt
German psychologist who founded the first experimental psychology laboratory in Leipzig in 1879.
Specifications & Metrics
- lifespan
- 1832-1920
- nationality
- German
- tradition
- Structuralism / experimental psychology
Core Principles & Analysis
- Wundt opened the Leipzig laboratory in 1879, the conventional birthdate of psychology as an experimental science.
- His Grundzüge der physiologischen Psychologie (1874) was the field's first comprehensive handbook.
- He launched Philosophische Studien (1883–1903), the first journal for psychological research, and trained psychology's first cohort.
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