Although the study of psychology by philosophical means dates back to ancient times in China, India, Egypt and Greece I have recently been studying a bit more about the very important year of 1879. In 1879 Wilhelm Wundt founded one of the first formal laboratories for psychological research at the University of Leipzig. Wundt is widely regarded as the "father of experimental psychology". Through the creation of this laboratory Wundt looked into matters like the nature of religious beliefs, identifying mental disorders and abnormal behavior and mapping damaged areas of the brain. Through this research in a laboratory setting Wundt helped establish psychology as a separate science from other topics. Interestingly Wundt also helped form the first journal for psychological research in 1881. Part of Wundt's research was influenced by a student name Edward Bradford Titchener who described Wundt's system as structuralism. I think it goes to show how Wundt was really highly influential in different ways as many of his students went onto become prominent influences in the field of psychology like James McKeen Cattell and G. Stanley Hall. And just to let you know why I am blogging particluarly about Wundt today is basically from finding some new interconnected research to Wundt that I came upon; and I then decided it would be necessary to talk more about on this blog somewhere about someone who had such a prominent and influential career like Mr. Wilhelm Wundt.