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Dr Edward Bradford Titchener
BIRTH 11 Jan 1867
Chichester, Chichester District, West Sussex, England
DEATH 3 Aug 1927 (aged 60)
Ithaca, Tompkins County, New York, USA
BURIAL Donated to Medical Science, Specifically: Donated to Cornell University's brain collection
MEMORIAL ID 196993689 · View Source
"Introspective Observation is what we have to rely on first and foremost and always. The word introspection need hardly be defined—it means, of course, the looking into our own minds and reporting what we there discover." --E.B. Titchener
Edward B. Titchener, considered the dean of American experimental psychology, gave psychology its first definition as a science as the study of mental experience, of consciousness to be studied by trained introspection.
He coined the word "Empathy" in 1909.*****************!
Titchener attempted to classify the structures of the mind in a version of psychology he termed "structuralism". He proposed the theory of meaning, suggesting that the context in which a sensation occurs in consciousness determines meaning.
Titchener founded the first psychology lab in the U.S. at Cornell University. His first graduate student, Margaret Floy Washburn, became the first woman to be granted a PhD in psychology (1894).
He founded the SEP (Society of Experimental Psychologists) in 1904.
After his death, reportedly of a cerebral tumor, his brain was donated to Cornell University's brain collection. The collection, which at one point included well more than 350 human brains as well as hundreds of other vertebrate brains, was begun more than a century ago by Cornell's first professor of animal biology, Burt Green Wilder. He was inspired by the famous naturalist Louis Agassiz, who taught Professor Wilder to "study nature, not books."
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January 11, 1867
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Chichester, West Sussex, England, United Kingdom
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January 2, 1898
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Chichester, West Sussex, England, United Kingdom
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1903
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Ithaca, Tompkins County, New York, United States
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| 1927 |
August 3, 1927
Age 60
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Ithaca, Tompkins County, NY, United States
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Cornell University(donated his brain), Ithaca, Tompkins County, NY, United States
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