[Anthropologic and ethnic psychology]

In the second half of the 19th century and up to the first two decades of the 20th century a new school of thought about two fundamental trends began and gradually developed; firstly anthropology and secondly the findings of Linneo and Buffon in the 18th century. Consequently, in the field of anthropology and the science of human constitutions, one notes the importance of a chapter which hitherto has remained rather unclear; anthropologic and ethnic psychology which made use of certain experimental data which were increasingly available in various research laboratories. The Italian Giuseppe Sergi, the Frenchman Giuseppe Arturo Visconte di Govineau, the German Guglielmo Wundt and others added their remarkable contributions to this new field of study.