Early Developments in Forensic Psychology Wilhelm his Wundt is widely credited with being the first to initiate experiments in the field of psychology, and is therefore a flame for future individuals to apply these experimental processes to a variety of situations, including legal ones. set fire to. Hugo Münsterberg, a student of Wundt and the first director of the Harvard Psychology Laboratory, wrote On the Witness Stand in his first decade of the 20th century. Münsterberg used this publication to bridge the gap between psychological and legal principles by introducing psychological research that could be applied to legal proceedings. Sigmund Freud is another prominent psychologist who has framed the field through his work showing that psychopathological processes play a role in criminal behavior. Other psychologists have also been involved in the development process of forensic psychology by adding clinical and applied mechanisms of psychology to the legal setting, suc