Graham Wallas
1858 – 1932 British Social psychologist, political scientist, Fabian, co-founder of the LSE
Social psychologist and Fabian who co-founded the LSE and pioneered the study of political behaviour.
- Affiliations
- Fabian Society (resigned 1904); co-founder and long-serving teacher at the LSE.
Graham Wallas was a social psychologist and educator who helped found the London School of Economics in 1895 and taught there for decades. His book 'Human Nature in Politics' argued that political behaviour is driven more by habit and emotion than by pure reason, an early contribution to political psychology. He was an active Fabian but resigned from the society in 1904 over its stance on tariffs. He held the LSE's chair of political science from 1914.
Connections
- associate of George Bernard Shaw — Fellow Fabian and co-founder of the LSE.
- associate of Sidney Webb — Fellow Fabian and co-founder of the LSE.
In the timeline
- 1895 Fabian socialists found the London School of Economics co-founder