Wilhelm Wundt

One of the things that would make Wundt's work so foreign to American psychologists was what he referred to as the principle of actuality: He said that consciousness is, in fact, a reality, and that it is the subject matter of psychology. This is, of course, true -- although we managed to overlook it for a good 80 years or so when behaviorism ruled the academic world in the the US, Britain, and Russia. --Dr. C. George Boeree, Wilhelm Wundt and William James, 2000