<P> Experimental psychology was introduced into the United States by George Trumbull Ladd , who founded Yale University 's psychological laboratory in 1879 . In 1887 , Ladd published Elements of Physiological Psychology , the first American textbook that extensively discussed experimental psychology . Between Ladd 's founding of the Yale Laboratory and his textbook , the center of experimental psychology in the US shifted to Johns Hopkins University , where George Hall and Charles Sanders Peirce were extending and qualifying Wundt 's work . </P>
<P> Experimental psychology was introduced into the United States by George Trumbull Ladd , who founded Yale University 's psychological laboratory in 1879 . In 1887 , Ladd published Elements of Physiological Psychology , the first American textbook that extensively discussed experimental psychology . Between Ladd 's founding of the Yale Laboratory and his textbook , the center of experimental psychology in the US shifted to Johns Hopkins University , where George Hall and Charles Sanders Peirce were extending and qualifying Wundt 's work . </P>
the first experimental laboratory in psychology in the united states was founded by
the first experimental laboratory in psychology in the united states was founded by
George Trumbull Ladd
George Trumbull Ladd