Edward Bradford Titchener

Edward Bradford Titchener (1867-01-11–1927-08-03) was a British-born American psychologist. He was born in Chichester, England, and died in Ithaca, New York, USA. He won a scholarship to study philosophy at Oxford University in 1885 and further studied for a postgraduate degree in physiology in 1889. In 1890, he went to the University of Leipzig in Germany and studied under Wilhelm Wundt. He received his Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1892 with a thesis on the binocular effects of monocular stimulation and in the same year went to teach at Cornell University in the United States. He taught at Cornell University for 35 years and was the editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Psychology for 30 years. He trained 54 doctors in psychology and supervised 176 research reports at his laboratory at Cornell University.

Titchener considered psychology to be a purely fundamental science. According to him, psychology is similar to the morphology of biology, both using the method of experimental...