http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/behavioral-pyschology Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Fri, 19 Jun 2026 04:39:22 -0400 Fri, 19 Jun 2026 04:39:22 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1685/a-brief-history-of-industrial-psychology By Tasnim B. Kazi - Industrial Psychology is almost as old as Psychology itself. Psychology came about in 1879 in the laboratory of Wilhelm Wundt in Germany and William James at Harvard. Both of them were philosophers and physicians fascinated with the mind-body debate. The older discipline of philosophy could not alone deal with this debate, more room and new tools were needed, giving way to Psychology. Texts applying psychology to business first appeared in 1903; the first Industrial-Organizational (I/O) psychology text appeared in 1910 (Landy, 1997). It is believed that four men developed the ‘tone&rsquo... Mon, 23 Jan 2012 08:05 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1685/a-brief-history-of-industrial-psychology