biography
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| (1890–1947)
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| biography:
| Psychologist, born in Mogilno, Poland (formerly Prussia). Part of the German Gestalt psychology movement, his particular interests were group dynamics and memory. He emigrated to the USA (1932), and taught at Cornell (1933–5), the University of Iowa (1935–44), and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1944–7), where he also directed the research centre for group dynamics. He attempted to analyze behaviour using laboratory techniques. He saw behaviour in terms of forces in the psychological ‘field’ and described individual behaviour in terms of the interaction of internal and environmental psychological forces. He compared, for instance, the effect of democratic and authoritarian behaviour on groups. |
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