The Social Context of Methodology

This he considered "rather a grim discovery", but he tried to improve the situation by writing a textbook that would spell out for students the nature of what he called "Psychology's Scientific Endeavor". In doing so he joined the ranks of contributors to a distinct genre, one that is just about as old as experimental psychology itself. The first methodological text was published by Wilhelm Wundt in 1883, just after he had established his psychological laboratory (Wundt, 1883). Like most of Wundt's important works it was never translated into English.