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Born June 22, 1919
Died May 3, 1982 (aged 62)
Notable Works “Experiments in Intergroup Discrimination”
Subjects Of Study social psychology • perception • prejudice • social change • social identity theory
Role In World War II
William McDougall
American psychologist
Sokolow, Nahum
Nahum Sokolow
British writer
Otto Klineberg
psychologist
Max Wertheimer
Czech-born psychologist
Harry Allen Overstreet
Harry Allen Overstreet
American social psychologist
Margaret Floy Washburn
American psychologist
James J. Gibson
American psychologist and philosopher
Wolfgang Köhler
German psychologist
George S. Klein
American psychologist
Lewin, Kurt
Kurt Lewin
American social psychologist
Kurt Koffka, c. 1928.
Kurt Koffka
German psychologist
Charles Hubbard Judd
American psychologist
Gustave Le Bon
French psychologist
Ewald Hering
German physiologist and psychologist
Joy Paul Guilford
American psychologist
Sheldon Glueck
American criminologist
Geoffrey Hinton
Geoffrey Hinton
British-Canadian cognitive psychologist and computer scientist
John Bowlby
British developmental psychologist and psychiatrist
Viktor Frankl
Austrian psychologist
Anna Freud
Anna Freud
Austrian-British psychoanalyst