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Edward Bradford Titchener (1867-1927) Psychologist Education * Oxford University (B.A., 1890) * University of Leipzig, Psychology (Ph.D., 1892) Career * Psychology Professor, Cornell University (1892-1927) * Head, Psychology Department, Cornell University (1892-1897) * Editor, Studies from the Department of Psychology of Cornell University (1894-1927) * American Edtor, Mind (1894-1917) * Editor, American Journal of Psychology (1895-1927) Major Contribution * Brought the 'new psychology', the experimental psychology of Wundt (and others) to the United States, effecting the transition from mental philosophy to psychology as it is currently practiced. * Through in-depth, careful, and systematic exploration of the introspective and structuralist position, Titchener eventually revealed its significant limitations, ultimately enabling the freeing the development of psychology from structuralist boundaries. [Titchener, however, never abandoned the introspective, structuralist approach.] Ideas and Interests Edward Bradford Titchener was generally regarded as Wundt's apostle in America. He studied systematic psychology, but not to the exclusion of other branches as well. The acknowledged leader of...

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