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Calkins publishes a paper in the Psychological Review extending Ebbinghaus' memory research
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Elements of Physiology is published by Johannes Müller
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Hippocrates identifies definite classes of human diseases.
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Francis Galton uses method of twin comparisons
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Sigmund Freud Publishes The Interpretation of Dreams
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Alfred Binet Publishes New Methods for the Diagnosis of the Intellectual Level of Subnormals. Calkins elected as the first woman president of the American Psychological Association
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Ivan Pavlov Publishes his findings regarding classical conditioning
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Becomes America's first professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania
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The emergence of managed care prompts the APA to become more political, leading to the idea of Prescribing Psychologists and equity in mental health coverage.
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First Psychologists prescribe medication through the U.S. military’s psychopharmacology program
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Deep Blue, the supercomputer at the time, beats the World’s best chess player, Kasparov, marking a milestone in the development of artificial intelligence.
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Psychology advances to the technological age with the emergence of e-therapy.
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Psychologists in Guam gain prescription privileges for psychotropic medication
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New Mexico becomes the first state to pass legislation allowing licensed psychologists to prescribe psychotropic medication.
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The push for mental health parity gets the attention of the White House as President George W. Bush promotes legislation that would guarantee comprehensive mental health coverage.
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The American Psychiatric Association issued official position statements supporting the care and civil rights of transgender and gender non-conforming individuals
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On April 2 U.S. President Barack Obama announced the 10-year BRAIN Initiative to map the activity of every neuron in the human brain
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Stanislas Dehaene, Giacomo Rizzolatti, and Trevor Robbins, were awarded the Brain Prize for their research on higher brain mechanisms underpinning literacy, numeracy, motivated behaviour, social cognition, and their disorders
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A team led by Brian Nosek of the University of Virginia published an article in Science that revealed that only 39 of 100 studies published in major psychology journals could be replicated.
