Educated at Williams College, Union Theological Seminary and Harvard University, where he received his PhD in psychology in 1878, Hall spent some time in Leipzig, Germany studying under Wundt. When he returned to America, he taught for a short time at Harvard before joining Johns Hopkins University in 1881. There he established a laboratory of psychology, the first in America. In 1887, he founded the American Journal of Psychology and in 1889 he became the first president of the newly established Clark University and continued in that role until 1920. In 1892, he became the first president of the American Psychological Association and was re-elected shortly before his death. In 1915, he founded the Journal of Applied Psychology. Hall's main interests were in the field of child psychology and education. His students numbered among the elite of American psychology including Edmund C. Sanford and John Dewey. His works include Aspects of German Culture (1881), The Contents of Children's Minds (1883), Adolescence: Its Psychology and its Relation to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, Religion and Education (1904), Youth: Its Education, Regimen and Hygiene (1906), Educational Problems (1911), Founders of Modern Psychology (1912), Jesus the Christ in the Light of Psychology (1917), Aspects of Child Life and Education (1921) and Life and Confessions of a Psychologist (1923). |
