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Essay Galaxy - William James: The Later Years
William James: The Later Years
William James introduced experimental psychology to America. He began giving laboratory demonstrations to students at least as early as Wundt, and he and his students started performing laboratory experiments about the same time as Wundt and his students. Ironically, while James made much of the value of experimentation, he himself found it boring. He usually spent no more than two hours a day in the laboratory. Yet he believed in it and had his students perform a broad array of experiments. Although James hated to do experiments, he forced himself to when it was the best way to prove or disprove a theory.
But James's own experiments were only one source of his ideas about psychology.
He came up with many of his major insights and hypotheses from another and very different source: introspection, of a kind quite unlike that practiced by Wund....
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