Who was the father of modern psychology?
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Wilhelm Wundt. Wilhelm Wundt opened the Institute for Experimental Psychology at the University of Leipzig in Germany in 1879. This was the first laboratory dedicated to psychology, and its opening is usually thought of as the beginning of modern psychology. Indeed, Wundt is often regarded as the father of psychology.
Hereof, is Freud the father of modern psychology?
Sigmund Freud is a very well-known name. Many psychologists and others in the field continue to research and learn Freud's theories. While Freud worked, he had no means of studying and quantifying the mind or his theories by the scientific method.
Then, who is father of psychology?
Wilhelm Wundt
Founding fathers. In terms of personalities and psychological method, Gustav Theodor Fechner (1801–1887) occupies a critical position in the history of psychology, between the pioneering sensory physiologist, Ernst Heinrich Weber (1795-1878) and Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt (1832-1920), father of experimental psychology.