Wilhelm Wundt
<p>The studies conducted by Wundt and his now numerous students were mostly on sensation and perception, and of those, most concerned vision.  In addition, there were studies on reaction time, attention, feelings, and associations.  In all, he supervised 186 doctoral dissertations, most in psychology.
Among his better known students were Oswald Külpe and Hugo Munsterberg (whom James invited to teach at Harvard), the Russian behaviorists Bekhterev and Pavlov, as well as American students such as Hall (“father” of developmental psychology in America), James McKeen Cattell, Lightner Witmer (founder of the first psychological clinic in the US, at U of Penn), and Wundt’s main interpreter to the English speaking world, E. B. Titchener.  Titchener is particularly responsible for interpreting Wundt badly!
Later in his career, Wundt became interested in social or cultural psychology.  Contrary to what many believe, Wundt did not think that the experimental study of sensations was the be all and end all of psychology!  In fact, he felt that that was only the surface, and additionally that most of psychology was not as amenable to experimental methods.
 
 
 
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When Wundt first started out at the University of Leipzig he was looking for storage space.  He had a large collection of apparatus that he had put together over the years to go along with his lectures.  In 1876 he finally received the space and continued teaching experimental psychology .  In 1879 he had students assisting him in his research.  In the same year Max Freidrich and Ernst Tischer, and G Stanely Hall joined Wundt to conduct studies on reaction-time.  In 1883 Wundt was given four times the space for his new laboratory along with a forty percent salary increase.  The University now recognized the laboratory as the Institute of Experimental Psychology.  Sometimes even Wundt would have to be the in the studies.  Soon students from around the world were flocking to earn their PhD's in experimental psychology.
 
 
Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920)'s pioneering work on cultural/ folk psychology namely Völkerpsychologie was mentioned in sec. . Wundt aimed to find psychological explanations based on data from ethnology. He contrasted stages, such as primitive'', totemic'', age of heroes and gods'' and enlightened age of humanity'', and associated each with a distinctive type of thinking. Unlike other evolutionary theorists of his time, Wundt believed that primitive and civilized man had the same intellectual capabilities: they just exercised them differently. Wundt's students included Emile Durkheim, Franz Boas and Bronislaw Malinowski.</p>