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-350 - Aristotle wrote De Anima
-350 - Aristotle wrote On Memory and Reminiscence
-360 - Plato wrote Timaeus
-400 - Parmenides of Elea writes On Nature
-550 – Confucius publications
-550 – Pythagoras of Samos enunciated theorem
0406 - Augustine finished Confessions
0426 - Augustine finished City of God
1264 - Thomas Aquinas published Summa Theologica
1508 - Dutch humanist published The Praise of Folly
1513 - The Prince published
1516 - Sir Thomas More published Utopia
1524 - Marco Marulik published The Psychology of Human Thought Volume 1
1540 - P Melanchton published Commentary about the Soul
1557 - Physica Speculatio published in Mexico
1586 - First book in English in the treatment of mental illness
1586 - G B della Porta published De Humana Physiognomonia
1590 - R Goclenius invented the term "Psychology"
1594 - O Cassman wrote Psychologia Anthropologica, or Animae Humanae Doctrina
1605 - F Bacon published The Proficiency and Advancement of Learning
1624 - P Gassendi published Paradoxes Against the Aristotelian
1632 - G Galileo published Dialogue on the Two Great Systems of the World
1635 - E Neuhaus published book summarizing the reason for studying psychology
1637 - R Descartes published Discourse on Method
1649 - R Descartes postulates total separation of body and soul
1651 - T Hobbes published Leviathan
1690 - J Locke published An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
1692 - C Thomasius published book in the midn
1709 - G Berkeley published An Essay Toward a New Theory of Vision
1732 - C von Wolff published "Psicologia empirica"
1734 - Christian von Wolff published Psychologia Rationalis
1745 - J O de La Mettrie published The Natural History of the Soul
1748 - D Hume published An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding
1749 - de La Mettrie published L'Homme Machine
1751 - First journal with the word "psychology" in its title
1754 - C Bonnet published Essay about Psychology
1754 - E Condillac published Treatise on Sensation
1764 - T. Reid published Inquiry into the Human Mind
1765 - G W von Leibniz published New Essays on the Human Understanding
1766 - F A Mesmer publshed first works
1782 - Immanuel Kant published The Critic of Pure Reason
1785 - T Reid published Essay in the Intellectual Powers of Man
1788 - T Reid published Essay on the Active Powers of the Human Mind
1789 - J Bentham published Principles of Morals and Legislation
1789 - T Malthus published Essays on the progress of the population
1794 - D Diderot published Essays on the Progress of the Human Spirit
1796 - F Franco published Theological Medicine
1796 – First original Russian book on psychology
1797 - J Millás published Instituiciones psicológicas
1802 - P J Cabanis published Traité du Physique et du Moral de l'Homme
1802 - T Young published A Theory of Color Vision
1809 - Gall and Spurzheim publish a book on descriptive anatomy of the brain
1813 - F Franco published Elements of Hygiene
1815 - J K Spurzheim published The Phisiognonimal System of Drs Gall and Spurzheim
1816 - J F Herbart published Lehrbuch zur Psychologie
1818 - Spurzheim published Observations sur la phrénologie, ou la Naissance de l'Homme
1820 - F Beneke published On the Relationship between the Soul and the Body
1834 - Johannes Müller published Handbüch des Physiologie des Menschen
1838 - Johannes Müller published Elements of Physiology
1840 - Psychology, or A View of the Human Soul; including Anthropology published
1842 - Book Psychology: Elements of a New System of Mental Philosophy published
1844 - John Stuart Mill published A System of Logic
1851 - First psychological book published in Colombia
1852 - Chapters on Mental Physiology published
1854 - First general psychology book written in Brazil published
1855 - First psychological textbook published
1855 - Two volumes of The Principles of Psychology published
1856 - First volume of the Handbuch der physiologischen Optik published
1859 - Alexander Bain published The Emotions and the Will
1859 - Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species published
1860 - G Fechner published The Elements of Psychophysics
1860 - T Laycock published Mind and Brain
1863 - Wundt published Lectures on Human and Animal Psychology
1865 - F Galton published Hereditary Talent and Character
1867 - H Maudsley published Physiology and Pathology of the Mind
1868 - Dutch book on the speed of mental phenomena
1869 - Fechner and Wundt recognized in the US
1870 - First Italian treatise on psychology
1870 – Contemporary psychology introduced to France
1871 - Charles Darwin published The Descent of Man
1872 - Charles Darwin published The Expression of the Emotions in the Man and in the Animals
1873 - Pioneering Japanese empirical study in psychology
1873 - Wundt published Principles of Physiological Psychology
1874 - F Brentano published Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint
1874 - Principles of Mental Physiology published
1875 - F Galton published History of Twins
1877 - Charles Darwin published A Biographical Sketch of an Infant
1880 - Francis Galton published Statistics of Mental Imagery
1882 - William T Preyer published first volume of The Mind of the Children
1883 - F Galton published Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development
1884 - H Bernheim published On Suggestion in the Hypnotic State
1884 - J Dewey published The New Psychology
1884 - W James published What Is an Emotion?
1885 - H Ebbinghaus published Memory: A Contribution to Experimental Psychology
1886 - E Mach published The Analysis of Sensations
1886 - J Dewey published first textbook titled Psychology
1886 - J M Cattell published The Time Taken up by Cerebral Operations
1890 - C von Ehrenfels published About the Qualities of the Gestalt
1890 - G Tarde published The Laws of Imitation
1890 - J M Cattell published Mental Tests and Measurements
1890 - V D de Castro published On Emotions
1890 - W James published Principles of Psychology
1891 - O Goulart wrote Psychoclinical Studies of Aphasia
1892 - W James writes The Stream of Consciousness
1893 - O Külpe published Outline of Psychology
1894 - J Dewey published The Ego as Cause
1894 – First Brazilian psychological study about memory
1895 - G Le Bon published Psychologie de Foules
1895 - J Breuer & S Freud published Studies on Hystery
1895 - J M Baldwin published Types of Reaction
1896 - "The Reflex Arc Concept in Psychology" published
1897 - A Mosso published the book Physiology of Man in the Alps
1897 - J Peixoto published Epilepsy and Crime
1897 - N Tripllet published The Dynamogenic Factors in Pacemaking and Competition
1897 - W Wundt published Outlines of Psychology
1898 - Baldwin, Cattel & Jastrow publish Physical and Mental Tests
1898 - E Durkheim published Représentations individuelles et représentations collectives
1898 - E L Thorndike published Animal Intelligence
1898 - E Titchener published The Postulates of a Structural Psychology
1899 - The Psychology of a Paramecium published
1899 - W Caldwell published The postulates of a structural psychology
1911 - Edward Thorndike publishes Animal Intelligence
1912 - M Wertheimer published "Experimental Studies of the Perception of Movement"
1912 - W. McDougall writes first title with psychology as the study of behaviour
1916 - Complete account of E Thorndike's studies published in Egypt
1916 - First book with the word "motivation" in its title
1917 - Stanford-Binet Intelligence Test published
1918 - First Chinese university psychology textbook
1922 - First Greek book on child psychology
1924 - First Brazilian book on psychological tests
1924 - M Wertheimer published Gestalt Theory
1925 - Uruguay’s first psychology chair established
1926 - First Brazilian publications from the Institute of Hygiene, Brazil
1928 - First form of the American Psychological Association publication manual
1928 - First general text featuring the word motivation in the main title
1928 - Research institute for psychology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences
1930 - B F Skinner published his first experimental paper
1933 - W Köhler wrote the last anti-Nazi article to be published before World War II
1938 - First psychological laboratory experimental psychology textbook
1944 - L Kanner published article "Early Childhood Autism"
1945 - K Duncker published article "On Problem Solving"
1946 - B Székely published Los tests
1948 - E C Tolman published paper "Cognitive Maps in Rats and Man"
1950 - A Turing publishes Computing Machinery and Intelligence
1950 - G Homans publishes The Human Group
1950 - R Bales introduces Interactional Process Analysis
1950 - T Newcomb published Social Psychology
1950 - Theodor W Adorno et al published The Authoritarian Personality
1951 - First issue of Applied Psychology: An International Review
1951 - S Asch's chapter "Effects of Group Pressure Upon the Modification and Distortion of Judgments" published
1952 - E Brunswick publishes The Conceptual Framework of Psychology
1952 - F Bartlett publishes Think and to Conceive: Experiments of Practical Psychology
1952 - H Eysenck's article "The Effects of Psychotherapy: An Evaluation" published
1952 - S Asch published Social Psychology
1953 - S Langer's book Feeling and Form, a landmark in aesthetic psychology, published
1953 - Volume 1 of E Jones's The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud published
1954 - A Anastasi's Psychological Testing published
1954 - B F Skinner demonstrates a machine designed to teach arithmetic, using an instructional program
1954 - Gordon Allport publishes The nature of prejudice
1954 - Rudolf Arnheim's Art and Visual Perception was published
1955 - G Kelly Psychology of Personal Constructs published
1955 - L J Cronbach & P Meehl's "Construct Validity in Psychological Tests" published
1955 - R Crutchfield publishes the article Conformity and Character
1956 - "The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information" published
1956 - L Biswanger publishes Three Forms of Frustrated Existence: Extravagance, Idiosyncrasy and Affectation
1956 - S Asch publishes his studies about conformity
1957 - S S Stevens's article "On the Psychophysical Law" published in Psychological Review The article was the first thorough exposition of the power law of psychophysics
1958 - D Broadbent publishes Perception and Communication
1958 - F Feigl publishes The 'Mental' and the 'Physical'
1959 - J J C Smart publishes the article Sensations and Brain Process
1959 - J P Guilford's article The Three Faces of Intellect published
1960 - G Sperling publishes his famous article about the sensorial memory
1960 - Thomas Szasz's article "The Myth of Mental Illness" was published in the American Psychologist
1961 - Carl Rogers publishes On Becoming a Person
1961 - H Toch publishes Legal and Criminal Psychology, the first psycho-legal textbook
1961 - M Argyle and J Dean's article Eye-Contact, Distance, and Affiliation published
1963 - S Milgram's article "Behavioral Study of Obedience" published
1965 - First issue, International Journal of Psychology
1966 - Mark R Rosenzweig's article "Environmental Complexity, Cerebral Change, and Behavior" published
1966 - S Sternberg's article "High Speed Scanning in Human Memory" published
1967 - M Seligman and S Maier's article "Failure to Escape Traumatic Shock" published
1967 - R May publishes Psychology and the Human Dilemma
1968 - G Hardin's article "The Tragedy of the Commons" published in Science
1968 - J G Darley and B Latané's article "Bystander Intervention in Emergencies: Diffusion of Responsibility" published
1968 - Roger Sperry's article "Hemisphere Deconnection and Unity in Conscious Awareness" published
1970 - Article "Origins and Evolutions of the Term Psychology" was published
1971 - R Shepard and J Metzler publish the article Mental Rotation of Three-Dimensional Objects
1982 - Academy of Arabic Language in Cairo approves a dictionary of psychological terms
1982 - O Erinosho and N W Bell's Mental Health in Africa published in Ibadan, Nigeria
1986 - R Wyer, Jr and T Srull publised the article "Human Cognition in its Social Context"
1989 - I Altman published the article Centripetal and Centrifugal Trends in Tsychology
1993 - R Sperry published article "The Impact and Promise of the Cognitive Revolution
1998 - Psychology in the Arab countries, edited by R A Ahmed and U P Gielen published
2001 - WHO's annual world health report focused on mental health