The Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology is an American learned society. It promotes philosophy and psychology in the

Southern United States The Southern United States (sometimes Dixie, also referred to as the Southern States, the American South, the Southland, or simply the South) is a geographic and cultural region of the United States of America. It is between the Atlantic Ocean ...

History

The Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology was co-founded by 36 charter members in 1904.''Scientific and Technical Societies of the United States''
National Academies, 1968, volume 8, p. 175

James Mark Baldwin James Mark Baldwin (January 12, 1861, Columbia, South Carolina – November 8, 1934, Paris) was an American philosopher and psychologist who was educated at Princeton under the supervision of Scottish philosopher James McCosh and who was one of ...

served as its first president from 1904 to 1908. Its second president in 1909 was J. Macbride Sterrett, followed by its third president, Albert Lefevre, in 1910. Its fourth president in 1911 was Edward Franklin Buchner, followed by its fifth president in 1912,

Shepherd Ivory Franz Shepherd Ivory Franz (May 27, 1874 – October 14, 1933) was an American psychologist. He was the first chairman of the psychology department at the University of California, Los Angeles and served as president of the American Psychological Associa ...

, and its sixth president, Robert Morris Ogden, in 1913. They were followed by the seventh President, H. J. Pearce, in 1914, and the eighth President,

John B. Watson John Broadus Watson (January 9, 1878 – September 25, 1958) was an American psychologist who popularized the scientific theory of behaviorism, establishing it as a psychological school.Cohn, Aaron S. 2014.Watson, John B." Pp. 1429–1430 in ''T ...

, in 1915.

References

Scientific organizations established in 1904 Learned societies of the United States Culture of the Southern United States {{US-org-stub