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Max Wertheimer
Max Wertheimer , 1880-1943, German psychologist, b. Prague. He studied at the universities of Prague, Berlin, and Würzburg (Ph.D., 1904). His original researches, while he was a professor at Frankfurt and Berlin, placed him in the forefront of contemporary psychology. Wertheimer came to the Uni... Read more
Barbara Wertheim Tuchman
Barbara Wertheim Tuchman 1912-89, American historian, b. New York City. She won the Pulitzer Prize for history twice, for The Guns of August (1962), about the onset of World War I, and for Stilwell and the American Experience in China (1971). Her other works include The Zimmermann Telegram (1... Read more
Kurt Koffka
Kurt Koffka , 1886-1941, American psychologist, b. Germany, Ph.D. Univ. of Berlin, 1908. Before settling permanently in the United States in 1928 as a professor at Smith, he taught at Cornell and at the Univ. of Wisconsin. With Max Wertheimer and Wolfgang Köhler he is credited with developing t... Read more
cognitive psychology
cognitive psychology school of psychology that examines internal mental processes such as problem solving, memory, and language. It had its foundations in the Gestalt psychology of Max Wertheimer , Wolfgang Köhler , and Kurt Koffka , and in the work of Jean Piaget , who studied intellect... Read more
Stephen Crane
Stephen Crane 1871-1900, American novelist, poet, and short-story writer, b. Newark, N.J. Often designated the first modern American writer, Crane is ranked among the authors who introduced realism into American literature. The 14th child of a Methodist minister, he grew up in Port Jervis, N.Y., an... Read more
psychology
psychology science or study of the thought processes and behavior of humans and other animals in their interaction with the environment. Psychologists study processes of sense perception , thinking, learning , cognition, emotions and motivations , personality , abnormal behavior, interactions b... Read more

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Max Wertheimer
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Max Wertheimer The German psychologist Max Wertheimer (1880-1943) was the originator of Gestalt psychology...profound influence on the whole science of psychology. Max Wertheimer was born in Prague on April 15, 1880. At the University...
Wertheimer, Max
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology Max Wertheimer 1880-1943 German psychologist who...the whole science of psychology. Max Wertheimer was born in Prague on April 15,1880...another lifelong interest. In 1910, Wertheimer performed his now famous experiments...
Gestalt Psychology
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...generally viewed (Ash 1995; King and Wertheimer 2005) as having been launched by a series of experiments by Max Wertheimer (1880 – 1943) on apparent...evident in two earlier publications of Wertheimer on musical structures (1910) and...
Koffka, Kurt
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology ...Gestalt movement. Working with Max Wertheimer and Wolfgang K ö hler , Kurt...Main. They shared a laboratory with Wertheimer, who was studying the perception of motion. Soon, Wertheimer, Koffka, and K ö hler were...
Köhler, Wolfgang
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology ...long professional association with Max Wertheimer (1880-1943) when he and Kurt Koffka...research subjects for an experiment of Wertheimer's involving perception of moving pictures...structured wholes. Unlike Koffka and Wertheimer, K ö hler concentrated on animal...
John Singer Sargent
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...privilege of having him do their portraits. In 1898 Asher Wertheimer, a famous London art dealer, commissioned him to paint all...One of the finest of this group is the portrait of Mrs. Wertheimer, which is elegant and impervious but facile and penetrating...
Asch, Solomon
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...College. Soon after taking up this position, he met Max Wertheimer (1880-1943), a Gestalt psychologist who became...intellectual influence in Asch ’ s life. When Wertheimer died in 1943, Asch succeeded him as chairman of psychology...
psychology
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...important was the development of Gestalt psychology by German psychologists Kurt Koffka , Wolfgang Köhler , and Max Wertheimer . Gestalt theory contended that the task of psychology was to study human thought and behavior as a whole, rather than breaking...
Psychology
Encyclopedia entry from: UXL Encyclopedia of Science ...and method of psychotherapy founded by Sigmund Freud. At about the same time behaviorism arose, German psychologists Max Wertheimer (1880 – 1943), Kurt Koffka (1886 – 1941), and Wolfgang K ö hler (1887 – 1967...
Electromagnetic Fields
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Public Health ...assumed that power frequency EMFs were too weak, or had too little energy, to cause biologic effects. Then, in 1979, Nancy Wertheimer and Ed Leeper published an epidemiologic study that showed that children in Denver, Colorado, who died of cancer, particularly...

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Political Action Committees
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...Information on PAC Activity for 1997 – 98." Federal Election Commission, U.S. Government. Available from . Wertheimer, Fred, and Susan Weiss Manes. "Campaign Finance Reform: A Key to Restoring the Health of Our Democracy." Columbia Law...
Schiff, Paul (1891-1947)
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...of the Seine) and later served as chief of the psychiatric clinic at Sainte-Anne Hospital in 1927. He married Suzanne Wertheimer, an ophthalmologist. Analyzed by Eug é nie Sokolnicka, Schiff became a member of the Soci é t é...
National Public Radio
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...Conflicting Communication Interests in America: The Case of National Public Radio. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1999. Wertheimer, Linda, ed. Listening to America: Twenty-Five Years in the Life of a Nation, as Heard on National Public Radio. Boston...

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Wertheimer Visits Route 50 Residents in Missouri
Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered; 4/29/1993; 700+ words ; ...through he center of the country. Linda Wertheimer's been traveling the road all week...traffic sounds in background] LINDA WERTHEIMER, Reporter: We've reached Union...traffic is getting very, very bad. WERTHEIMER: Mr. Delberghie, Route 50 is not...
Wertheimer Finally Gets A Revel for The Cause; Campaign Finance Bill Follows Decades of Effort
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 3/22/2002; ; 700+ words ; Fred Wertheimer has long been a familiar sight on Capitol...sign -- a bill to do just that. And Wertheimer is making plans for a long-deferred...as soon as the bill is finished," Wertheimer said yesterday from the downtown office...
Wertheimer inducted into Hall of Fame: Jay Wertheimer is awarded posthumously with the AICC/Paperboard Packaging honor.(AT AICC FALL MEETING)
Magazine article from: Official Board Markets; 10/14/2006; ; 700+ words ; Jay Wertheimer, who was well-known for his "new...Business--After graduating college, Wertheimer went to Washington, D.C., to work...salesperson in the family business, Wertheimer Box and Paper Co. in 1975, says his...
OBITUARY:Jacques Wertheimer
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 2/10/1996; ; 700+ words ; Jacques Wertheimer was the third member of one of Europe's oldest and...interests on the death of his mother, Mme Pierre Wertheimer, in 1974. The first winner in Pierre Wertheimer's blue with white braces, sleeves and cap was in...
The legacy of Max Wertheimer and gestalt psychology. (Sixtieth Anniversary, 1934-1994: The Legacy of Our Past.)
Magazine article from: Social Research; 12/22/1994; ; 700+ words ; ...Asch wrote that the "thinking of Max Wertheimer has penetrated into nearly every region...p. 81). Asch's article on "Max Wertheimer's Contributions to Modern Psychology...Johnson, to study "the work of Max Wertheimer and its meaning for social science...
Envisioning 21st century entertainment. (profile on Paramount Digital Entertainment President David Wertheimer)
Magazine article from: Los Angeles Business Journal; 1/1/1996; ; 700+ words ; David Wertheimer, president of Paramount Digital Entertainment...studio into the digital age David B. Wertheimer works out of a simple ground-floor...the company only a couple months now, Wertheimer's name has yet to be included in the...
Wertheimer, Jordan to build industrial park
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 6/5/1996; ; 537 words ; ...INDUSTRIALIST and entrepreneur Stef Wertheimer yesterday announced plans to establish...Outstanding Entrepreneur Award for 1996, Wertheimer said he intends to execute his plans...jointly with neighboring countries. Wertheimer said he is conducting negotiations to...
Paintings of Wertheimer family on display at Richmond museum.(Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 9/27/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...obligated more of his time than the Wertheimer family. The Wertheimers were a privileged...during Victorian times. Patriarch Asher Wertheimer, a successful London art dealer, hired...job soon expanded to include the 10 Wertheimer children, and eventually became the...
Linda Wertheimer Finishes Trip Across Middle America
Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered; 4/30/1993; 700+ words ; ...0000 NOAH ADAMS, Host: Today Linda Wertheimer completes her week of traveling west...first a stop at a farm in Kansas. LINDA WERTHEIMER, Reporter: We're just outside of...to the feed lot in the Spring time. WERTHEIMER: Have you been making a good living...
Pay Raise Issue Fosters Fight Between Long-Allied Activists;High-Stakes Game Splits Nader, Wertheimer
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 1/30/1989; ; 700+ words ; ...imposition of the raise approaches, Fred Wertheimer of Common Cause and Ralph Nader of Public...emotion as a rerun of "Casablanca." Wertheimer says yes; Nader says no. "These are...people who lead and govern the nation," Wertheimer said in an interview. "The salaries...