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G. Stanley Hall. Granville Stanley Hall (February 1, 1844 – April 24, 1924 [1]) was a pioneering American psychologist and educator who earned the first doctorate in psychology awarded in the United States of America at Harvard College in the nineteenth century. His interests focused on human life span development and evolutionary theory.
Jul 27, 2023 · G. Stanley Hall (bottom center in photo) was a psychologist best known as the first American to earn a Ph.D. in psychology and the first president of the American Psychological Association. He also had a significant influence on the early development of psychology in the United States.
Apr 20, 2024 · G. Stanley Hall (born February 1, 1844, Ashfield, Massachusetts, U.S.—died April 24, 1924, Worcester, Massachusetts) was a psychologist who gave early impetus and direction to the development of psychology in the United States.
G. Stanley Hall was an American educator and psychologist who played a major role in establishing the field of psychology in the United States. He was primarily interested in evolutionary theory and child development, and is considered one of the founders of educational psychology and child psychology.
Hall's work defined adolescents in modern, scientific terms, that is, as natural and outside of social relations and history. The shapers of the modern, scientific adolescent made growing bodies and sexuality primary foci and the measures to prevent precocity enhanced youth's economic dependence.
Some people see Hall not only as the founder of American developmental psychology but also as the father of scientific American psychology. Impressively, by 1898, Hall had supervised 30 of 54 U.S. PhDs in psychology.
May 21, 2018 · G. Stanley Hall (1844–1924), American psychologist and educator, was born in the rural hamlet of Ashfield, Massachusetts. In 1863 he enrolled at Williams College, where he studied with Mark Hopkins.
Granville Stanley Hall (February 1, 1844 – April 24, 1924) was an American pioneering psychologist and educator. His interests focused on childhood development, evolutionary theory, and their applications to education. Hall was a strong believer in the scientific method and its application to the study of human nature.
May 28, 2013 · Granville Stanley Hall (b. 1844–d. 1924) was arguably the father of developmental psychology in the United States. His scholarship, leadership, and vision enabled a new appreciation for the science and institutionalization of modern childhood and adolescence.
When G. Stanley Hall was appointed professor of psychology and pedagogics at Johns Hopkins University in 1884, he began the process of translating an older psychology embedded in moral philosophy into a "new psychology" resting on science.
