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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.
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Granville Stanley Hall (February 1, 1844 – April 24, 1924 [1]) was an 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.
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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
G. STANLEY HALL WAS instrumental in founding psychology as a science and in its development as a profession. He is best known for his work on child development, especially adolescence, yet he also wrote a powerful treatise on the economic, social, and intellectual isolation of the elderly.
- Manon Parry
- 2006
Psychologist and educator Granville Stanley Hall (1846-1924) was one of the pioneers of psychology in the United States, which would become the core of this science in subsequent decades. He not only trained several renowned psychologists, but also founded laboratories, journals and the American Psychological Association.
May 21, 2018 · The American psychologist and educator Granville Stanley Hall (1844-1924) pioneered in developing psychology in the United States. His wide-ranging and prolific writings reveal a central theme best characterized as genetic psychology or evolutionism.
