The department was founded by Guo Renyuan, an alumnus and doctoral student of the University of California, in the spring of 1923, and served as the head of the department. 19 18 Guo went to the United States to study psychology, 192 1, 1922 published "Cancel Instinct in Psychology" and "How did our instinct come from? And many other articles, for the famous British psychologist William? McDougall William (w? McDougall criticized all kinds of instinctive views that human behavior originated from congenital inheritance, provoked a debate about instinct, shocked the foreign academic circles at that time, and was recognized as the master of behaviorism school. After Guo returned to his alma mater to teach, "the first thing was to set up a library for teachers and students to read hundreds of psychological books and periodicals he brought back from the United States;" In addition, he also opened a psychological and physiological laboratory and showed some instruments and equipment necessary for teaching and research. "(1) Footnote1In the spring of 925, the department was expanded into a psychological college, and science and engineering were separated. Guo served as the vice president and dean of the psychological college and acted as the principal for one year. 1926, the school of psychology was changed to the school of biology, and the department of biology was established. 1927 Guo resigned and left school. At that time, psychology professors at Fudan University included Tang Yue and Cai Qiao. Because of Guo's academic reputation and his attitude of attaching importance to scientific experiments, he attracted a group of young students who were eager to learn. China's famous scientists and foreign aid scholars Tong Dizhou, Shen, Xu and Zhu Henian are all students of Guo Renyuan.

In order to meet the needs of social development and cultivate psychological talents with professional knowledge, with the approval of the State Education Commission, the Department of Sociology added a psychology major in 20001year, and enrolled 20 undergraduates in the following autumn. The department was established from June 5 to1October 38, 2005. Professor Sun is the head of the department and the professor is the deputy director. There are 6 teachers, including professor 1 person, 3 associate professors, 2 lecturers and 4 doctors.

The psychology department of Fudan University does not belong to the first-class psychology department in China. In psychology, the nearby China Normal University is better than her.

The college entrance examination scores are different every year, but there is a Fudan brand over there, and the scores cannot be low.

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1979 the psychology department of east China normal university was formally established. 1997 the national training base for scientific psychology was established with the approval of the Ministry of education. In 2000, basic psychology was approved as a national key discipline. In May 2008, the School of Psychology and Cognitive Science was established. It is a new college jointly established by the former Department of Psychology and the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience under construction. The current principal is Zhou Yongdi. There are 58 faculty members, including 20 with senior titles and 6 with deputy senior titles/kloc-0. The School of Psychology and Cognitive Science has two departments and two research institutes: the Department of Psychology, the Department of Applied Psychology, the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and the Institute of Development and Educational Psychology. In addition, it has several research centers. At present, the college has a doctor's degree authorization point in psychology; Postdoctoral research station of psychology; State key discipline of basic psychology; National scientific talent training and research base; Psychology major of the Ministry of Education; Three doctoral and master's programs in two disciplines-basic psychology, developmental and educational psychology and applied psychology; Three independent doctoral programs-psychological information engineering, clinical psychology and cognitive neuroscience; Two undergraduate majors-psychology and applied psychology. The college has more than 0/0000 Chinese and foreign psychological books, more than 30 Chinese periodicals and more than 50 foreign periodicals. There are a number of research, application and training institutions, such as the editorial department of psychological science, the editorial department of popular psychology, the mental health consultation center and the school mental health education teacher training center. The comprehensive strength of psychology ranks among the top five in China. Next are Beijing Normal University, Peking University and Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. At present, there are many national excellent courses in China Normal University, such as sports psychology, educational psychology, developmental psychology and experimental psychology.