William Rivers (dec 1, 1864 – nov 11, 1922)
Description:
- an English anthropologist, neurologist, ethnologist and psychiatrist, best known for his work treating First World War officers who were suffering from shell shock- was the second one to try to establish psychology in Cambridge (Oxford?) -> started psychological research in 1897
-> Myers took over his lab in 1912
-> one of River's students. McDougall, left Oxford in 1920 after trying to establish psychology there -> experimental psychology was almost absent until 1935
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Date:
dec 1, 1864
nov 11, 1922
~ 57 years