Karlos Luna
Dept. of Psychology, Suleyman Sah University, Turquía, y Centre for Cognition and Decision Making, National Research University-Higher School of Economics, Federación Rusa
Münster Universität. (cc) Frank Kehren.
A recent research rediscovered the figure of Ferdinand Bernard Ueberwasser, a professor at the University of Münster who tried to make psychology an independent discipline almost a century before Wundt. In 1787, Ueberwasser published a book in which he proposed a scientific psychology based on the manipulation of variables and the replication of observations, and that should study areas such as perception, memory, creativity, or empathy. The Napoleonic Wars and the discontinuation of the University of Münster made Ueberwasser’s legacy to be almost completely forgotten, until today.
