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Kurt Koffka

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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 the theories that gave rise to the school of Gestalt psychology. His book Growth of the Mind (1924) was considered responsible for awakening much interest in Gestalt concepts. Bibliography: See his Principles of Gestalt Psychology (1935). Author not available, KOFFKA, KURT.... Read more
Koffka, Kurt
Koffka, Kurt (1886–1941) US psychologist, b. Germany. With Wolfgang Köhler and Max Wertheimer, Koffka was a founder of gestalt psychology . He wrote The Growth of the Mind (1921) and Principles of Gestalt Psychology (1935). Read more
Köhler, Wolfgang
Köhler, Wolfgang (1887–1967) US psychologist, b. Estonia. With Kurt Koffka and Max Wertheimer, he was a key figure in Gestalt psychology . His work on animal learning and problem solving is summarized in The Mentality of Apes (1917). Read more

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New developments in social interdependence theory.(SOCIAL INTERDEPENDENCE THEORY)
; ...conceptualized by Morton Deutsch (1949a). Kurt Koffka The historical roots of social...Gestalt school of psychology, Kurt Koffka (1935), proposed that, similar...principles of Gestalt psychology and Koffka's notion, Kurt Lewin (1935, 1948) proposed that... Read more
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; ...the American mind are Max Wertheimer, Wolfgang Kohler, and Kurt Koffka. Other names that may follow this trinity are Kurt Lewin, Abraham and Edith Luchins, Solomon Asch, and Mary Henle...with those following in the steps of Wertheimer, Kohler, and Koffka. In his Introduction to the English ... Read more
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; ...engineer and inventor, 1858; Arthur Neville Chamberlain, statesman, 1869; Gian Francesco Malipiero, composer, 1882; Kurt Koffka, psychologist, 1886; Wilfred Owen, poet, 1893; Betty Compson (Eleanor Luicime Compson), actress, 1897; Lavrenti Pavlovich... Read more
The Whole and the Parts: Working in the Analytic Field
; ...into psychology and philosophy, in the work of writers such as Kurt Lewin and Maurice Merleu-Ponty. In psychoanalysis, they are...interested in the study of "wholes" as opposed to that of "parts" (Koffka, 1935; Merleau-Ponty, 1942; Katz, 1943). From such perspective... Read more
New developments in social interdependence theory.
; ...Since Morton Deutsch (1949a) introduced the basic theory of social interdependence (building on the work of Kurt Koffka [1935] and Kurt Lewin [1935]), the theory has provided a conceptual structure to organize and summarize the existing research... Read more
Forced Migration and Scientific Change
; ...Scientific and Professional Practices." Through discussions of the experiences of such individuals as Kurt Koffka, Wolfgang Kohler, and Kurt Lewin, Ash illustrates his contention that acculturation, a two-way process, is a more apt description... Read more
OBITUARY: Edwin B. Giventer (1917-2003)
; ...student at New York University and Columbia University, Professor Giventer studied with Gestalt theorists Max Wertheimer, Kurt Koffka, George Hartmann, and Goodwin Watson. At Brooklyn College of the City of New York, where he taught for nearly 45 years... Read more

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