A British-native, American psychologist. One of the founding generation of American psychologists, Titchener studied from Wilhelm Wundt, earning his doctorate from the University of Leipzig in 1892. After a short time at Oxford University, in 1895, Titchener became a psychology professor at Cornell University, where he remained for the rest of his working years. On a mission o make psychology a seriously experimental science, he came o be chief exponent of structuralism in the United States, stressing the utilization of step-by-step introspection in a lab to reveal the components of experience.