Psychology of Gender
Michelle Malsbury, BSBM, MM
April 24, 2010

http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/152978

1. History of psychology research on gender, beginning with founders of psychology.

Psychology began back in Greece, Egypt, China, and India.(www.wikipedia.org) In 1879 psychology became a branch of philosophy. The 1880´s were shaped by research conducted by Wilhelm Wundt, Stanley Hall, John Dewey, Hugo Munsterberg, Lightner Witner, James McKeen Cattell, Frances Galton, Sigmund Freud: who became known as the father of psychoanalysis. The 20th century has been dominated, somewhat anyway, by research from behaviorist´s who married the mind with the metaphysical Edward Tichner, John Watson, and B.F. Skinner.

According to the web site www.psychology.wikia.com [paraphrase] gender and sex (biologically speaking), as well as, the terms male/masculine and/or female/feminine, have become somewhat analogous in meaning, but that is considered a misperception in the realm of research and academia where sex connotes more the act of copulation rather than male or female attributes as attached to gender development. Under feminist theory gender is considered as the socially constructed variations between female and male behavior.