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Born Dec. 18, 1839, in Guingamp; died Dec. 9, 1916, in Paris. French psychologist and founder of the experimental school of French psychology.Ribot became a professor at the Sorbonne in 1885. In 1888 he was named a professor at the Collège de France, where in 1889 he became director of the first psychology laboratory in France. He founded and edited Revue ...

... rests on his realistic novels, characterized by an optimistic view of life. La aldea perdida. [the lost village] (1911) and La hermana San Sulpicio. (1889, tr. The Joy of Captain Ribot, 1900) are considered the best of these. A collection of his short stories appeared in English translation in 1935.

... 19th century (H. Taine and T. Ribot). Despite the limitations of the empirical psychologists’ conception of consciousness (which in their view was what the subject matter of psychology amounted to), empirical psychology played an important role in experimental studies of psychic phenomena.

... M. Charcot, C. Richet, and T. Ribot on the scientific problems of hypnosis and on psychotherapeutic methods. Ochorowicz’s inventions in telephony—a double-diaphragm electromagnetic telephone receiver and a thermal microphone—date from the same period. In 1886, at the third electrical-engineering exhibition in St. Petersburg, Ochorowicz arranged the first ...

... M. Charcot, C. Richet, and T. Ribot on the scientific problems of hypnosis and on psychotherapeutic methods. Ochorowicz’s inventions in telephony—a double-diaphragm electromagnetic telephone receiver and a thermal microphone—date from the same period. In 1886, at the third electrical-engineering exhibition in St. Petersburg, Ochorowicz arranged the first ...