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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.
Who Is G. Stanley Hall? 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.
This article is an overview of the special issue "G. Stanley Hall's Adolescence: A Centennial Reappraisal." First, a brief biography of Hall is presented. Then each of the six articles in the special issue is summarized.
This special issue commemorates the centennial of the publication of G. Stanley Hall's book Adolescence by examining it from historical and psychological perspectives.
In 1904, G. Stanley Hall published his two-volume magnum opus on adoles-cence. A sprawling work of over 1,300 pages, its title was similarly capacious: Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, Religion, and Education.
Jan 1, 2016 · Every essay on “storm and stress” begins with G. Stanley Hall ( 1904 ), the founder of developmental psychology, who gets credit for first describing adolescence as a time of “storm and stress.” As the first person in the modern era to write extensively and empirically about adolescent development, his views were influential.
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Stanley Hall: Educator, organizer, and pioneer developmental psychology. In Gregory A. Kimble & Michael Wertheimer (Eds.), Portraits of pioneers in psychology (Vol. V, pp. 19–36). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
