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Born March 18, 1886 • Berlin • Germany
Died November 22, 1941 (aged 55) • Northampton • Massachusetts • (Anniversary tomorrow)
Notable Works “Principles of Gestalt Psychology” • “The Growth of the Mind”
Subjects Of Study perception • phi phenomenon

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Max Wertheimer
Czech-born psychologist
Wolfgang Köhler
German psychologist
Ewald Hering
German physiologist and psychologist
Henri Tajfel
Polish-born British social psychologist
James J. Gibson
American psychologist and philosopher
George S. Klein
American psychologist
Joy Paul Guilford
American psychologist
George Frederick Stout
British philosopher and psychologist
Karen Horney
Karen Horney
German psychoanalyst
Franz Brentano
German philosopher
Wilhelm Wundt
Wilhelm Wundt
German physiologist and psychologist
Gustav Fechner
German philosopher and physicist
Carl Stumpf
German philosopher and psychologist
Georg Elias Müller
German psychologist
Moritz Lazarus, 1892
Moritz Lazarus
Jewish philosopher and psychologist
Johannes Nikolaus Tetens
German mathematician, economist, and philosopher
Lewin, Kurt
Kurt Lewin
American social psychologist
Hermann Ebbinghaus.
Hermann Ebbinghaus
German psychologist
Oswald Külpe
German psychologist and philosopher
Karl Bühler
German psychiatrist