In 1947 the Institute expanded its teaching programme with a new undergraduate course comprising psychology, physiology, and philosophy (PPP) and gained a permanent professional position, a Chair of Psychology. Despite these major achievements, psychology and experimental psychology were intermittently under attack from philosophers and others. The task was not easy for the first Professor in the Chair, G. Humphrey. He recounted his experience as if “he heard the lions on the shore sniffing round him, waiting for him to make a wrong move”. However, philosophers’ disapproval didn’t make psychology unpopular. Research and teaching continued to grow, requiring more lecturers to be recruited. It was good fortune that at the same time the Institute was forced to move to a spacious Victorian house which soon became crammed, too, with the influx of students and staff bringing new themes of investigation. Professor Larry Weiskrantz would lead the next phase of the Institute’s expansion.
