He also opened his laboratory to women at a time when research opportunities for women were nearly nonexistent. Among his students were Alfred Binet, E. R. Jaensch, Adolf Jost, David Katz, Oswald Kroh, Oswald Külpe, Lillian J. Martin, Eleanor McGamble, Alfons Pilzecker, Géza Révész, Edgar Rubin, and Friedrich Schumann. Müller, who was often described as a somewhat gruff character, was feared by his students as a relentless critic and a stickler for scientific rigor, but he was also cherished as a skillful listener and as an unfaltering supporter of their work. His meticulous, diligent, and innovative experimental approach earned his laboratory the reputation as the premier center for experimental psychology in all of Europe. Müller's pioneering vision also led to the formation of the "Society for Experimental Psychology," which he headed from 1904 to 1927.
Main Work
Müller's main contributions to experimental psychology fall into three areas: psychophysics, visual perception, and memory.
Psychophysics
Working from the philosophical background of the mind-body problem, which energized his research all his life, Müller first directed his attention to psychophysics, the scientific discipline that spear-headed the establishment of psychology as an objective science.
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