Article ID: CBB001211118

Alfred Binet and Experimental Psychology at the Sorbonne Laboratory (2012)

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Between 1892 and 1904, Alfred Binet (1857--1911) produced, in the psychology laboratory of the Sorbonne, a whole set of original works that still remains little known today. He integrated the laboratory, directed by the psychophysiologist Henry Beaunis (1830--1921), in 1891. We describe the circumstances that led Binet to take the direction of this laboratory in 1895 and present scientific investigations that were conducted there by Binet and his collaborators. For Binet, the laboratory was not narrowly limited to a set of rooms where experiments were conducted by means of sophisticated devices (experimental psychology), it was also a working area, regularly organized, where all the psychological documents were classified, whatever their origin (descriptive psychology). We show that Binet was a pioneer who is still little recognized in various areas of experimental psychology. Binet suffered, at the time, from the indifference of his contemporaries, but he especially regretted not being able to attract students to his laboratory due to the absence of diploma-offering programs. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved) (journal abstract)

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Authors & Contributors
Nicolas, Serge
Cicciola, Elisabetta
Plas, Régine
Foschi, Renato
Velmet, Aro
Staum, Martin S.
Journals
Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
Physis: Rivista Internazionale di Storia della Scienza
History of Psychology
Revue d'Histoire des Sciences
Psychological Reports
Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Publishers
Fefè Editore
Presses Universitaires de Rennes
Oxford University Press
Concepts
Psychology
Experimental psychology
Laboratories
Intelligence
Intelligence tests
Psychiatry
People
Binet, Alfred
Ribot, Théodule Armand
Janet, Pierre
Lund, Otto
Korsten, Lucien
Verdin, Charles
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
Places
France
United States
Institutions
Laboratoire de Psychologie Physiologique de la Sorbonne
Université de Paris
Collège de France, Paris
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