Department of Psychology, University of Chicago

Originally founded as the Laboratory of Psychology in 1893. Watson, the founder of behaviorism, L. L.

The Department of Psychology at the University of Chicago has been for a century a leading center of scholarship, research and teaching in psychology and related fields. Among its distinguished faculty and students have been James Rowland Angell, John Dewey, George Herbert Mead, John B. Thurstone, a pioneer in psychological measurement, and Roger Sperry, Nobel Prize winner for his work in cerebral lateralization.