Wilhelm Wundt in History

1 Wundt before Leipzig.- A Question of Lifestyle.- Early Childhood and Family.- Boyhood and Early Youth.- Choice of a Career.- Student Years.- Postgraduate Training.- The Iodine Affair.- The Localization Problem.- Some Fresh Frustrations.- Controversy with Hermann Munk.- Assistant to Helmholtz.- The Beiträge.- The Introduction on Method.- Controversy with Ewald Hering.- The Swiftest Thought.- Wundt’s “Fireside Conversations”.- Early Political Activity.- Lectures on Psychology.- Three Nonpsychological Books.- The Complication Pendulum.- Judgments on Haeckel and Helmholtz.- “Physiological Psychology” Arrives.- Research in Neurophysiology.- Hall, Wundt, and Bernstein.- Academic Mobility.- What the Reviewers Said.- The Inaugurations and Beyond.- Summary.- References.- 2 Wundt and the Temptations of Psychology.- Does Wundt Matter?.- Traditions and Their Temptations.- The Mechanistic Temptation.- The Temptations of Intellectualism.- The Temptation of Individualism.- Postscript: Pitfalls of Wundt Scholarship.- References.- 3 The Unknown Wundt: Drive, Apperception, and Volition.- Wundt’s Opposition to the Theories of Lotze and Bain.- From Impulse to Choice: The Development of Volitional Activity.- The Apperception Concept and the Experimental Context.- Some Early Reactions to Wundt’s Theories.- References.- 4 A Wundt Primer: The Operating Characteristics of Consciousness.- Presentations of Wundt.- Wundt’s “Actuality Principle”—The Heart of Controversy.- The Principle of “Creative Synthesis” (Schöpferische Synthese).- The Influential Wundtian School of Psycholinguistics (Sprachpsychologie).- The Emotion System.- The Volition System.- Final Days.- References.- 5 Wundt and the Americans: From Flirtation to Abandonment.- The Americanization Process.- TheFunctionalist—Structuralist Debate.- Wundtian Influence and James Mark Baldwin.- Wundt and Darwinism in America.- Edward Wheeler Scripture: The Yale Laboratory and the New Psychology.- Addendum.- References.- 6 Reaction-time Experiments in Wundt’s Institute and Beyond.- The Heart of the Work of the Leipzig Institute in the 1880s.- Reaction-time Studies before the Leipzig Institute.- Reaction-time Studies in the Leipzig Institute.- Ludwig Lange’s Approach: Muscular vs. Sensorial Reaction.- Social Organization of Research in the Leipzig Institute: The Set-Up for Experiments.- Leipzig Psychology Spreads in Europe, 1885–1895.- Münsterberg’s Dissent.- Wundt’s Allies in Germany: Kraepelin and Martius.- Külpe’s Rejection of the Subtraction Method.- Structuralism and Functionalism.- Wundt’s Tridimensional Theory of Emotions.- Reaction Times after 1900.- References.- 7 Laboratories for Experimental Psychology: Göttingen’s Ascendancy over Leipzig in the 1890s.- Introduction: Did Wundt’s Laboratory Lead the Experimental Movement in Psychology in the Early 1890s?.- “Göttingen . . . Second Only to Leipzig”: I Don’t Think So!.- What Is a Laboratory?.- Krohn and Henri as Evaluators of Laboratories.- The Equipment of the Laboratories.- German Equipment Catalogs.- The Zimmermann Catalog.- The Diederichs Firm.- Spindler & Hoyer Catalogs.- Determining How the Apparatus Worked.- Conflicts between G. E. Müller and Wilhelm Wundt.- Wundt’s Rejection of Müller’s Memory Apparatus.- Müller and Wundt on the Proper Measurement of Reaction Time.- Calibrating the Hipp Chronoscope.- Münsterberg and RT Studies.- Edgell’s Analysis of RT Studies.- The Accuracy of RT Measurement.- Evaluation of the Productivity of the Two Laboratories.- What Remains to Be Said.-References.- 8 The Wundt Collection in Japan.- A Brief History of the Wundt Collection.- “The Story of the Wundt Collection” (An Excerpt from Daifuku-cho).- The Current Status of the Wundt Collection.- References, with Annotations.- Bibliography of Wilhelm Wundt’s Writings, Compiled by Eleonore Wundt.- Writings of Wilhelm Wundt, by Year.- Name Index.