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First PHD
G. Stanley Hall becomes the first American to earn a Ph.D. in psychology. Hall eventually founds the American Psychological Association. -
First Laboratory
Wilhelm Wundt founds the first experimental psychology lab in Leipzig, Germany. The event is considered the starting point of psychology as a separate science. -
First Professional Journal
Wundt forms the professional journal Philosophische Studien (Philosophical Studies) -
First US Laboratory
G. Stanley Hall opens the first experimental psychology lab in the United States at John Hopkins University. -
Freud Happens!
Sigmund Freud begins providing therapy to patients in Vienna, Austria. -
APA Begins
G. Stanley Hall forms the American Psychological Association (APA), which initially has just 42 members. -
First Female PhD
Margaret Floy Washburn completes her training under Edward Tichener. -
Drooling Dogs
Ivan Pavlov publishes his findings on classical conditioning. -
First Psychobabble
Carl Jung begins to depart from Freudian views and develops his own theories, which are eventually known as analytical psychology. -
A Little Boy is Torturted!
John Watson and Rosalie Rayner publish research the classical conditioning of fear with their subject, Little Albert. -
Finally, A Good Guy
Jean Piaget becomes the foremost cognitive theorist with the publication of his work The Moral Judgment of Children. -
First DSM
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is published. -
Monkeys are tortured!
Harry Harlow publishes The Nature of Love, which describe his experiments with rhesus monkey's on the importance of attachment and love. -
People *think* they torture other people!
Stanley Milgram publishes Obedience to Authority, which presented the findings of his famous obedience experiments. -
Human Genome
2000 - Genetic researchers finish mapping human genes. Scientists hope to one day isolate the individual genes responsible for different diseases.