G. Stanley Hall

Granville Stanley Hall (1 February 1844 – 24 April 1924) was a pioneering American psychologist and educator. His interests focused on childhood development and evolutionary theory. Hall was the first president of the American Psychological Association and the first president of Clark University.

War has given applied psychology a tremendous impulse. This will, on the whole, do good, for psychology, which is the largest and last of the sciences, must not try to be too pure.

Quotes

• Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.
  • G. Stanley Hall. From Generation to Generation, The American Magazine, July 1908

• War has given applied psychology a tremendous impulse. This will, on the whole, do good, for psychology, which is the largest and last of the sciences, must not try to be too pure.
  • G. Stanley Hall (1919); Cited in O'Donnell, John M. "The crisis of experimentalism in the 1920s: EG Boring and his uses of history." American Psychologist 34.4 (1979). p. 290