I spent the last couple of days at the 50th Conference of the German Society for Psychology (DGPs) that took place in Leipzig, Germany. The conference was well attended and covered many interesting “hot” topics, including issues of replicability and use of open methods in psychological science, social inequality, or emotion and aging.

One special treat for those at the conference was that one could sit at Wilhelm Wundt’s desk. Leipzig, of course, became known as the birthplace of experimental psychology because Wundt founded his lab there in 1879… but did you know he spent a year in Zurich right before moving to Leipzig? Wundt actually had travelled with his “psychological” instruments to/from Switzerland before his move to Leipzig – so perhaps Switzerland should lay claim to being the real birthplace of psychology!

(well, that is if we ignore the fact that Wundt had been writing and working on the same topics in Heidelberg before that…)