This article is about the psychologist; for the politician see Robert Woodworth. En:Robert S. WoodworthError creating thumbnail: En:Robert S. WoodworthBorn 17 October 1869Died 4 July 1962Nationality AmericanFields psychologistKnown for functional psychology Robert Sessions Woodworth (1869-1962) was an influential American academic psychologist of the first half of the twentieth century. A graduate of Harvard and Columbia, his textbook Psychology: A study of mental life, which appeared first in 1921, went through many editions and was the first introduction to psychology for generations of undergraduate students...