Edward Bradford Titchener: 2. The Oxford Years

Abstract In 1885, Titchener entered Brasenose College, Oxford, where his social and academic life included membership in clubs dedicated to science in general and to biology in particular. In his third year (1888) he began to think about “mental philosophy” and studied psychology in his senior year. After graduation he devoted a year to learning laboratory procedures in the conduct of research in physiology. That experience and his Oxford education played a significant role shaping his career as a psychologist devoted to scientific rigor in the conduct of experiments in psychology.