Today has been all about celebrating German Psychology. The day started by finding that Wundt was in fact not the first German to try and establish Psychology has an independent academic discipline. In fact, this has already been attempted almost a hundred years earlier by Ferdinand Bernard Ueberwasser, at the University of Münster. See the…

Hi everyone. This morning, I would like to present to you the Wheatstone-Hipp Chronoscope, a piece of apparatus used in Wundt’s laboratory to record reactions times in his first early experiments using introspection. Follow the link above to learn more about this beautiful instrument that is accurate to within 1/1000th of a second. Often, I…