Margaret washburn psychologist was the first woman to receive a ph.d. in psychology after harvard university declined to give mary calkins the ph.d.
Who was the first psychology PhD recipient?
- Joseph Jastrow, a student in G. Stanley Hall at Johns Hopkins University, receives the first psychology PhD. After serving as president of the American Psychological Association in 1900, Jastrow went on to become a psychology professor at the University of Wisconsin.
- G. Stanley Hall received the first doctorate with "psychology" in the name (i.e., philosophy and psychology) in 1878. Hugo Munsterberg had been named head of the psychological laboratory and professor of experimental psychology by 1892.
- After Mary Whiton Calkins, Margaret Floy Washburn was the second woman to hold the office of APA President and the first to receive a doctorate in American psychology (1894).
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