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Born April 15, 1880 • Prague • Czechoslovakia
Died October 12, 1943 (aged 63) • New Rochelle • New York
Subjects Of Study perception • phi phenomenon
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German psychologist
Kurt Koffka, c. 1928.
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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
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German physiologist and psychologist
Gustav Fechner
German philosopher and physicist
Carl Stumpf
German philosopher and psychologist
Georg Elias Müller
German psychologist
Moritz Lazarus
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
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Oswald Külpe
German psychologist and philosopher
Karl Bühler
German psychiatrist