James Sully
James Sully (born March 3, 1842 in Bridgwater , England , † November 1, 1923 ) was an English psychologist .
Life
He studied at Independent College Taunton , Regent's Park College, Oxford , in Göttingen and at Berlin University . Originally he wanted to become a nonconformist clergyman, but in 1871 decided to pursue a literary and philosophical career. From 1892 to 1903 he was Professor of Philosophy at University College London . He was succeeded by Carveth Read .
subjects
Sully introduced developmental psychology to England in 1881, inspired by the publication of Charles Darwin's Child Observations in 1877 . He bought Hugo Münsterberg's experimental psychology laboratory when he was appointed to Harvard University from Freiburg im Breisgau in 1897 and called William McDougall from Göttingen to oversee experimental psychology. Sully was a follower of association psychology and bore many similarities with the views of Alexander Bain .
Works (selection)
- Illusions . 1881; 4th edition 1895, gutenberg.org
- Outlines of Psychology . 1884; many expenses
- Teacher's Handbook of Psychology . 1886
- The Human Mind. A Textbook of Psychology . Longmans, Green & Co, London 1892, archive.org
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Studies of Childhood . 1895
- Studies of Childhood . Wunderlich, Leipzig 1897, 2nd edition 1905
- Children's Ways . 1897
- An Essay on Laughter . 1902
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| SURNAME | Sully, James |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English psychologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 3, 1842 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bridgwater |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 1, 1923 |