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1839 S. Adams (title) Psycho-physiology, viewed in its connection with mysteries of animal magnetism and other kindred phenomena.

1898 Science 21 Oct. 555/2 One of the most profitable lines of investigation, alike for a science of developmental psychology and for education, runs out in the direction of psychobiology; or perhaps more definitely, psychophysiology.

1927 J. Riviere tr. S. Freud Ego & Id ii. 31 Psycho~physiology has fully discussed the manner in which the body attains its special position among other objects in the world of perception.

1960 Times Lit. Suppl. 3 June 335/1 The new sciences of sociology and psychophysiology have both increasingly proposed that whether dealing with the crowd or the creative mind there are new skilled and precise ways of obtaining obedience, consent and, indeed, cooperation.

1999 J. Naughton Brief Hist. Future (2001) iv. 67 To these he [sc. J. C. R. Licklider] rapidly added a Master's in psychology and a PhD in the psycho-physiology of the auditory system.

1888 Littell's Living Age 9 June 613/2 The psycho-physiologists of France [may] be aided in discovering some of the deeper elements in man's nature by dint of their very indifference to everything save the discovery itself.

1936 Psychol. Rev. 43 411 The loudness scale will probably be utilized extensively by psychophysiologists and acoustical engineers.

1989 J. Empson Sleep & Dreaming (BNC) 17 This observation, that we remain uncritical observers in dreaming, forms an important part of some recent theorizing about dreaming by the psychophysiologist Allan Rechtschaffen.