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This paper aims to introduce the laboratory of experimental psychology as a truth-spot, as well as to investigate the social networks formed at the laboratory, in the initial implementation of the psychology degree at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG). We interviewed five professors from UFMG in consideration of two principles: a) that a laboratory is a generator of facts/truths and b) that a laboratory is a support structure for the formation of academic communities. These interviews revealed the social supports provided by the laboratory for the psychology degree at UFMG. We interpreted the interviews by means of historical information from the national context at the time, relating both to the establishment of the psychology degree and to discussions on higher education. We found that the laboratory of experimental psychology played an important role in the formation of the university’s psychology department, in the establishment of a degree in that discipline, and in raising the status of psychology as a profession.

Place: Brazil Publisher: Interamerican Society of Psychology