Several influential early psychologists studied issues that today would be categorized as industrial psychology, including james cattell, hugo münsterberg, and walter dill scott, who were all students of

They are all students of "Wilhelm Wundt".

Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt was a German, physiologist, rationalist, and teacher, referred to today as one of the establishing figures of current psychology. Wundt, who noted psychology as a science separated from science and philosophical issues, was the first individual ever to call himself a psychologist. He is broadly viewed as the "father of experimental psychology".