Psychologists, philosophers and their country of influence, 2009

Reprinted from Wedding, D., & Stevens, M. J. (Eds). (2009). Psychology: IUPsyS Global Resource (Edition 2009) [CD-ROM]. International Journal of Psychology, 44 (Suppl. 1), "Origins" section.

Psychologists/philosophers and their country of influence

Psychologist or
philosopher
Country
of origin
Country of influence
SC GE SP LA JA CH AU NZ AF EG
W. Wundt Germany x x x x x x
S. Freud Austria x x x x
B. F. Skinner USA x x x x
L. Thurstone USA x x x
K. Lewin Germany x x x
I. P. Pavlov Russia x x x
A. Binet France x x x x x
H. Höffding Denmark x x
W. James USA x x x
D. Katz Germany x x
J. Piaget France x x
G. W. F. Hegel Germany x
K. Buhler Germany x x
H. Ebbinghaus Germany x x
C. G. Jung Switzerland x x
W. Kohler Germany x x
E. Kraepelin Germany x x
E. Spranger Germany x x
M. Wertheimer Germany x x
J. M. Charcot France x x
A. Garma Spain x x
E. Miraz-Lopez Cuba x x
M. Rodrigo Spain x x
T. Aquinas Italy x x
Aristotle Greece x x
H. Spencer UK x x x
E. B. Titchener USA x x x
J. Haven USA x x
A. Nishi Japan x x
C. Darwin UK x x
J. S. Mill UK x x
Note: SC = Scandinavia, GE = Germany, SP = Spain, LA = Latin America, JA = Japan, CH = China, AU = Australia, NZ = New Zealand, AF = Afrique Noire (Sub-Saharan Africa), EG = Egypt.
It should be noted that more recently developed psychologies do not have an especially strong linkage to early philosophers and psychologists, but instead take up the discipline at a later point in its history. Furthermore, some national psychologies are not rooted in Western epistemological tradition. Thus, some “new” and indigenous psychologists make less reference to key figures in their origins than do other national country disciplines (e.g., Afrique Noire, Egypt).