PSYCHOLOGIST

Edward B. Titchener

1867 - 1927

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Edward Bradford Titchener (11 January 1867 – 3 August 1927) was an English psychologist who studied under Wilhelm Wundt for several years. Titchener is best known for creating his version of psychology that described the structure of the mind: structuralism. After becoming a professor at Cornell University, he created the largest doctoral program at that time in the United States. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edward B. Titchener has received more than 468,008 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Edward B. Titchener is the 80th most popular psychologist (down from 68th in 2019), the 852nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 711th in 2019) and the 4th most popular British Psychologist.

Edward B. Titchener is most famous for his work in psychology and the study of consciousness. Titchener created the term "structuralism" to describe his theory that the mind is made up of a series of elements that are organized in a hierarchy.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Edward B. Titchener ranks 80 out of 235. Before him are Karl Bühler, Edward C. Tolman, William Stern, Ludwig Binswanger, Timothy Leary, and Paul Watzlawick. After him are Jean Tatlock, G. Stanley Hall, David Wechsler, Walter Bradford Cannon, Donald O. Hebb, and Hugo Münsterberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1867, Edward B. Titchener ranks 37. Before him are Rubén Darío, Joseph Maria Olbrich, Princess Maria Josepha of Saxony, Percy Fawcett, Kurt Eisner, and Vicente Blasco Ibáñez. After him are Wilhelm Groener, Madam C. J. Walker, Henry L. Stimson, Antti Aarne, Charles Koechlin, and Princess Maria Teresa of Bourbon-Two Sicilies. Among people deceased in 1927, Edward B. Titchener ranks 21. Before him are Jerome K. Jerome, Giuseppe Moscati, Yusef of Morocco, Paul Sérusier, Armand Guillaumin, and Gösta Mittag-Leffler. After him are Max Hoffmann, Li Dazhao, Adolph Joffe, Enrique Simonet, Saad Zaghloul, and Michael Ancher.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Edward B. Titchener ranks 852 out of 8,785. Before him are Prince John of the United Kingdom (1905), Matilda of England, Duchess of Saxony (1156), Charles George Gordon (1833), Rex Harrison (1908), William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley (1520), and Edmund Spenser (1552). After him are Ian Stewart (1938), Michael York (1942), Ray Milland (1907), Stephen Frears (1941), Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig (1861), and Mary Kingsley (1862).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among psychologists born in United Kingdom, Edward B. Titchener ranks 4. Before him are Donald Winnicott (1896), John Bowlby (1907), and Raymond Cattell (1905). After him are Charles Spearman (1863), R. D. Laing (1927), William McDougall (1871), Frederic Bartlett (1886), Havelock Ellis (1859), Alexander Bain (1818), Ernest Jones (1879), and Brenda Milner (1918).

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