Granville Stanley Hall (1846-1924)

A fost primul psiholog care a primit titlul de doctor in psihologie in america (1878).

A studiat si la Leipzig in laboratorul lui Wundt dar si cu fiziologul german C.Ludwig si cu H.Helmholtz in Germania. La Harvard a lucrat cu William James. In 1883 a infiintat primul laborator oficial de psihologie in SUA. In 1887 a fondat primul periodic american de psihologie American Journal of Psychology, dupa care a fondat revista Pedagogical Seminary, revista care apare si astazi sub numele Journal of Genetic psychology. In 1915 a pus bazele revistei Journal of Applied Psychology. In 1892 a creat Asociatia americana de psihologie si a fost ales presedintele ei.

Opere principale: Adolescence; its psychology and its relations to phsiology, antropology, sociology sex, crim, religion and education (in doua volume, 1904)

Educational problems (1911)

Founders of modern Psychology (1912)

Senescence; the last Half of life (1922)

Life and confessions of a psychologist (1923)