Gustav Fechner

German physicist Gustav Fechner utilized his science background to establish a new field called psychophysics, a science of psychology.

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German physicist Gustav Fechner, born in 1801, utilized his science background to establish a new field called psychophysics, a science of psychology. In his work from 1860 Elements of Psychophysics, he argued that mind and body, thought to be separate parts of the body, are different parts of a single reality.

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