Granville Stanley Hall (1844–1924) was an American psychologist and educator known for his pioneering work in child development, adolescence, and educational psychology. The first in the U.S. to earn a PhD in psychology, he played a crucial role in establishing it as an academic discipline.
Born in Ashfield, Massachusetts, Hall graduated from Williams College (1867,) later attending Union Theological Seminary before shifting to psychology. He earned his doctorate from Harvard University (1878,) the first American to receive a PhD in psychology. After studying briefly in Wilhelm Wundt’s experimental psychology lab in Germany, he returned to the U.S. to teach at Johns Hopkins University, founding America’s first psychology lab (1883.)
Hall became the first president of the American Psychological Association (APA) and Clark University. His influential works include Adolescence (1904,) introducing adolescence as a distinct stage, and Senescence (1922,) examining aging. Educational Problems (1911) addressed schooling issues, while Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene (1906) explored adolescent development. He also edited The American Journal of Psychology, founded in 1887.
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Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.
—G. Stanley Hall
Topics: Men
Every theory of love, from Plato down teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.
—G. Stanley Hall
Topics: Men & Women, Men, Women
No priest craft can longer make man content with misery here in the hope of compensation hereafter.
—G. Stanley Hall
Topics: Religion
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