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The International Congress of
Physiological Psychology was
renamed International Congress
of Psychology.


The American Psychological
Association was organized in the
study of G. Stanley Hall at Clark
University.

The British Psychological Society
(called The Psychological Society
until 1906) was founded at
University College of the
University of London. In 1965,
Queen Elizabeth II granted the
Society a royal charter.
The Société Francaise de
Psychologie was founded.

1890

1892

1893

1894

1895

1896

1898

1900

1901

Australia’s first part-time
lecturer in psychology was
appointed.
James Mark Baldwin
founded the first Canadian
psychological laboratory at
the University of Toronto.
A laboratory of experimental
psychology was founded at
the University of Louvain in
Belgium.
The first Dutch laboratory
was founded in Groningen.
The first Swiss laboratory
was founded by T. Flournoy
at the University of Geneva.
The World’s Colombian
Exposition in Chicago
featured a psychology
pavilion that presented a
scientific view of psychology
to the general public.
Philosopher A. Meinong
founded Austria’s first
psychology laboratory at the
University of Graz.
Freud conceived his dream
theory while dining at the
Bellevue Restaurant in
Vienna.

Lightner Witmer established
the world’s first
psychological clinic, at the
University of Pennsylvania.
Horacio Pinero founded Latin
America’s first laboratory of
experimental psychology at
the Colegio Nacional de
Buenos Aires.

The first Polish psychology
laboratory was founded by
philosopher/psychologist
K. Twardowski at Lwow
University.

ThePsychological Index,an annual
bibliography of publications in
psychology and cognate fields, began
publication under the editorship of
J. Mark Baldwin at Princeton
University and James McKeen Cattell
at Columbia University.

Freud published The Interpretation
of Dreams.

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TABLE 25.1 (Continued)


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