<P> In 1879 Charles Sanders Peirce was hired as a philosophy instructor at Johns Hopkins University . Although better known for his astronomical and philosophical work , Peirce also conducted what are perhaps the first American psychology experiments , on the subject of color vision , published in 1877 in the American Journal of Science ( see Cadwallader , 1974 ) . Peirce and his student Joseph Jastrow published `` On Small Differences in Sensation '' in the Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences , in 1884 . In 1882 , Peirce was joined at Johns Hopkins by G. Stanley Hall , who opened the first American research laboratory devoted to experimental psychology in 1883 . Peirce was forced out of his position by scandal and Hall was awarded the only professorship in philosophy at Johns Hopkins . In 1887 Hall founded the American Journal of Psychology , which published work primarily emanating from his own laboratory . In 1888 Hall left his Johns Hopkins professorship for the presidency of the newly founded Clark University , where he remained for the rest of his career . </P>
<P> In 1879 Charles Sanders Peirce was hired as a philosophy instructor at Johns Hopkins University . Although better known for his astronomical and philosophical work , Peirce also conducted what are perhaps the first American psychology experiments , on the subject of color vision , published in 1877 in the American Journal of Science ( see Cadwallader , 1974 ) . Peirce and his student Joseph Jastrow published `` On Small Differences in Sensation '' in the Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences , in 1884 . In 1882 , Peirce was joined at Johns Hopkins by G. Stanley Hall , who opened the first American research laboratory devoted to experimental psychology in 1883 . Peirce was forced out of his position by scandal and Hall was awarded the only professorship in philosophy at Johns Hopkins . In 1887 Hall founded the American Journal of Psychology , which published work primarily emanating from his own laboratory . In 1888 Hall left his Johns Hopkins professorship for the presidency of the newly founded Clark University , where he remained for the rest of his career . </P>
who established the first american psychology research lab
who established the first american psychology research lab
G. Stanley Hall
G. Stanley Hall