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Professional Psychology: Debating Chamber · Psychology Journals · Psychologists

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List of degrees awarded

(with links to the curriculum for each)

Notable alumni

• Hermann Lotze
• Cai Yuanpei

Many important psychologists went to Liepzig University to be educated by Wilhelm Wundt. They include:

• • George Herbert Mead (one of the founders of social psychology
  • Oswald Külpe (a German professor at the University of Würzburg);
  • James McKeen Cattell (the first professor of psychology in the United States),
  • G. Stanley Hall (the father of the child psychology movement and adolescent developmental theorist, head of Clark University),
  • Charles Hubbard Judd (Director of the School of Education at the University of Chicago), Hugo Münsterberg (who contributed to the development of industrial psychology and taught at Harvard University),
  • Edward Bradford Titchener (who founded the first psychology laboratory in the United States at Cornell University),
  • Lightner Witmer (founder of the first psychological clinic in his country);
  • Charles Spearman (Englishman who who developed the two-factor theory of intelligence and several important statistical analyses - see Factor analysis, Spearman's rank correlation coefficient);
  • Constantin Rădulescu-Motru (Romanian Personalist philosopher and head of the Philosophy department at the University of Bucharest).

Notable staff in the past

• Wilhelm Wundt

History of the department

In 1879 Wilhelm Wundt founded the worlds first laboratory dedicated exclusively to psychological research.