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Granville Stanley Hall (February 1, 1844 – April 24, 1924 [1]) was an American psychologist and educator who earned the first doctorate in psychology awarded in the United States of America at Harvard College in the nineteenth century.
The Journal of Genetic Psychology: Research and Theory on Human Development is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering developmental psychology.The first scholarly journal devoted to the field of developmental psychology, it was established in 1891 by G. Stanley Hall as The Pedagogical Seminary, and was renamed The Pedagogical Seminary and Journal of Genetic Psychology in 1924.
G. Stanley Hall in his preface to the 1920 American translation wrote: These twenty-eight lectures to laymen are elementary and almost conversational. Freud sets forth with a frankness almost startling the difficulties and limitations of psychoanalysis , and also describes its main methods and results as only a master and originator of a new ...
The first president was G. Stanley Hall. During World War II, the APA merged with other psychological organizations, resulting in a new divisional structure. Nineteen divisions were approved in 1944; the divisions with the most members were the clinical and personnel (now counseling) divisions.
Francis Cecil Sumner (December 7, 1895 – January 11, 1954) was an American leader in education reform.He is commonly referred to as the "Father of Black Psychology." He is primarily known for being the first African American to receive a Ph.D. in psychology (in 1920). [1]
William H. Burnham was born in Dunbarton, New Hampshire in 1855. He received his bachelor's degree from Harvard in 1882, and his doctorate from Johns Hopkins in 1888. He was then recruited by G. Stanley Hall to teach at Clark University, where he stayed until he retired in 1926.
G. Stanley Hall (1844–1924) PhD 1878 First president of APA and Clark University [117] Donald Olding Hebb (1904–1985) PhD 1936 Canadian psychologist; "father of neuropsychology"; President of the American Psychological Association 1960; Fellow of the Royal Society; Chancellor of McGill University 1970–1974 George Anthony Hill (1842–1916)
Edmund Smith Conklin (April 19, 1884 – October 6, 1942) was an American author and psychologist.. He was born in New Britain, Connecticut on April 19, 1884. He attended Clark University when G. Stanley Hall was a leading teacher.