Can you tell me personality of characteristics of Wilhelm Wundt, things that you would not read in a textbook? or let me know of any good websites or books that could tell me? Thank you.

-- Jodee Collier (Jodeeleann@aol.com), November 25, 2002

Answers

You'll generally find nice material in the more lengthy history of psychology textbooks (Watson's The Great Psychologists, for example). D. B. Klein, in A History of Scientific Psychology quotes from a talk given by Harald Hoffding about Wundt (p. 819 of Klein's text.) Hoffding described Wundt as affecting people with "his gentle warmth, manifest cordiality, and quite enthusiasm for things intellectual." If you can track down Hoffding's article which was translated into English, and perhaps some Wundt obituaries, you should be in good shape. Unfortunately the biographies on the web are not any better than standard textbook treatments. Klein also quotes from Titchener about Wundt. If you can find Klein's book, it will give you much of what you want.

-- Hendrika Vande Kemp (hendrika@earthlink.net), November 25, 2002.

Here is a list of books about Wundt and his work:

Wilhelm Wundt in history : the making of a scientific psychology / edited by Robert W. Rieber and David K. Robinson.

Wilhelm Wundt : die Konzeption der Völkerpsychologie / Berthold Oelze. Oelze, Berthold.

Wilhelm Wundt and the establishment of experimental psychology, 1875-1914 : the context of anew field of scientific research / by David Kent Robinson. --

Wundt and the two traditions of psychology / Kurt Danziger. -- Toward a science of human nature : essays on the psychologies of Mill, Hegel, Wundt, and James / Daniel N. Robinson. --

Wundt studies : a centennial collection / edited by Wolfgang G. Bringmann and Ryan D. Tweney ; with a foreword by Ernest R. Hilgard.

Wilhelm Wundt and the making of a scientific psychology / edited by R. W. Rieber, in collaboration with Arthur L. Blumenthal, Kurt Danziger, Solomon Diamond. --

Wundt's theory of behaviour and volition / Kurt Danziger. -- Danziger, Kurt.

The positivist repudiation of Wundt / Kurt Danziger. -- Wilhelm Wundt und die Anfänge der experimentellen Psychologie / Hans Hiebsch. -- Founders of modern psychology / by G. Stanley Hall. --

-- Christopher Green (cgreen@chass.utoronto.ca), November 28, 2002.