<P> The historical development of I / O psychology was paralleled in the US , the UK , Australia , Germany , the Netherlands , and eastern European countries such as Romania . The roots of I / O psychology trace back nearly to the beginning of psychology as a science , when Wilhelm Wundt founded one of the first psychological laboratories in 1876 in Leipzig , Germany . In the mid 1880s , Wundt trained two psychologists , Hugo Münsterberg and James McKeen Cattell , who had a major influence on the emergence of I / O psychology . </P>
<P> The historical development of I / O psychology was paralleled in the US , the UK , Australia , Germany , the Netherlands , and eastern European countries such as Romania . The roots of I / O psychology trace back nearly to the beginning of psychology as a science , when Wilhelm Wundt founded one of the first psychological laboratories in 1876 in Leipzig , Germany . In the mid 1880s , Wundt trained two psychologists , Hugo Münsterberg and James McKeen Cattell , who had a major influence on the emergence of I / O psychology . </P>
when did the discipline of industrial -- organizational psychology emerge
when did the discipline of industrial -- organizational psychology emerge
1876
1876