Reference work

By: G. Stanley Hall

Date: 1905

Source: Hall, G. Stanley. Adolescence: Its Psychology. New York: D. Appleton, 1905, ix, xiii, 2–3.

About the Author: Granville Stanley Hall (1844–1924) was born in Ashfield, Massachusetts, and received his Ph.D. in psychology from Harvard University in 1878. In 1884, he founded the first experimental psychology laboratory in the United States at Johns Hopkins University. In 1888, he became president of Clark University in Massachusetts and used his position to invite Sigmund Freud to lecture at the university in 1909.

Introduction

In 1866 German naturalist Ernest Haeckel announced the theory of recapitulation, an interpretation of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. Darwin believed nature adapted species ever more closely to their environment, and it was this adaptation that evolved...