🧠 Psychology & The Human Mind Chronological History Timeline

Chronological Timeline (27 Entries)

1. [1874] Franz Brentano — As a non-denominational professor, Brentano developed his seminal work, *Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint*, published in 1874.
2. [1905] Alfred Binet — This effort culminated in the invention of the seminal Binet–Simon Intelligence Test, initially published in 1905.
3. [1912] Thomas Mann — He also wrote short stories and novellas, including Death in Venice (1912).
4. [1945] Masao Maruyama (scholar) — In March 1945, Maruyama was drafted and stationed in the Army at Hiroshima.
5. [1946] Judith Wright — She published her first poetry collection, The Moving Image, in 1946 while working as a research officer at the University of Queensland.
6. [1949] Allen Newell — == Early studies == Newell completed his bachelor's degree in physicsINK_0@@ from Stanford in 1949.
7. [1949] Donald O. Hebb — His seminal 1949 publication, The Organization of Behavior, introduced the foundational Hebbian theory of learning.
8. [1950] Paul Goodman — He co-wrote the theory behind Gestalt therapy based on Wilhelm Reich's radical Freudianism and held psychoanalytic sessions through the 1950s while continuing to write prolifically.
9. [1952] Jacques Lacan — He conducted influential annual seminars in Paris between 1952 and 1980, during which he published foundational papers that were later compiled in his seminal work, Écrits.
10. [1960] Tahar Ben Jelloun — After he was a professor of philosophy in Morocco, he joined the group that ran the literary magazine Souffles in the mid-1960s, and he wrote many pieces for the cultural magazine.
11. [1961] Michel Foucault — After several years as a cultural diplomat abroad, he returned to France and published his first major book, The History of Madness (1961).
12. [1967] Ulric Neisser — In 1967, he published Cognitive Psychology, which rapidly brought him significant fame within the psychological community despite its unconventional nature.
13. [1971] Hans Eysenck — Eysenck's research included claims that certain personality types had an elevated risk of cancer and heart disease and research on IQ scores and race (first published in 1971), which were a significant source of controversy.
14. [1976] John Grinder — His dissertation, titled On Deletion Phenomena in English, was published by Mouton in 1976.
15. [1980] Police brutality in the United States — From 1980 to 2018, more than 30,000 people have died by police violence in the United States, according to a 2021 article published in The Lancet.
16. [1984] Robert Cialdini — Cialdini wrote the 1984 book on persuasion and marketing, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion.
17. [1985] Simon Baron-Cohen — In 1985, Baron-Cohen formulated the mindblindness theory of autism, the evidence for which he collated and published in 1995.
18. [1989] Slavoj Žižek — His seminal 1989 work, The Sublime Object of Ideology, introduced these complex ideas to wider international audiences.
19. [1997] Masao Miyamoto — After being fired, he published a second book in 1997 titled Oyakusho no Seishinbunseki (お役所の精神分析) or Psychoanalyzing the Bureaucrats [2].
20. [1999] Jordan Peterson — In 1999, he published his first book, Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief, which became the basis for many of his subsequent lectures.
21. [2002] Elliot Aronson — A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Aronson as the 78th most cited psychologist of the 20th century.
22. [2002] George Armitage Miller — A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Miller as the 20th most cited psychologist of that era.
23. [2002] Neal E. Miller — A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Miller as the eighth most cited psychologist of the 20th century.
24. [2002] Walter Mischel — A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Mischel as the 25th most cited psychologist of the 20th century.
25. [2004] Preity Zinta — Between 2004 and 2005, she wrote a series of columns for BBC News Online South Asia.
26. [2022] BTS — On June 14, 2022, the group announced a scheduled pause in group activities to enable the members to complete their 18 months of mandatory South Korean military service, which they all completed by June 2025.
27. [2024] Jonathan Haidt — In 2024, he published The Anxious Generation, arguing that the rise of smartphones and overprotective parenting has led to a "rewiring" of childhood and increased mental illness.