A Hipp chronoscope, as used in Wundt’s psychophysics experiments
‘I am prepared to say that Wundt is the founder, not of experimental psychology alone, but of psychology. Edward B. Titchener (1921)’
In the mid-nineteenth centu psychology did not exist as a formal academic discipline. Admittedly a few independently wealthy Victorian ‘men of science’, such as Francis Galton and Herbert Spencer, had started to collect statistics on individual abilities and construct elaborate theories of human nature. However there were, as yet, no degree courses, academic journals or research laboratories devoted to psychology.
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