# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/otto-selz
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:48:45.576Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/otto-selz"
name: "Otto Selz"
slug: "otto-selz"
description: "Otto Selz was a German psychologist, born in Munich, Bavaria. He formulated the first non-associationist theory of thinking, in 1913. Influenced by the German phenomenological tradition, Selz used the method of introspection, but unlike his predecessors, his theory developed without the use of images and associations. Wilhelm Wundt used the method of introspection in the 1880s, but thought that higher-level mental processes could not be studied in the scientific laboratory."
tagline: "German psychologist (1881–1943)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Otto-Selz-Passfoto-um-1930.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1881-02-14"
deathDate: "1943-08-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.58
  momentum:             1.071428571428571
  historical:           7.008748
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Otto Selz"
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  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%88_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%B2"
    title: "اوتو سيلز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Selz"
    title: "Otto Selz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Selz"
    title: "Otto Selz"
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  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Selz"
    title: "Otto Selz"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Selz"
    title: "Otto Selz"
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  - url: "https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%9D%E1%83%A2%E1%83%9D_%E1%83%96%E1%83%94%E1%83%9A%E1%83%AA%E1%83%98"
    title: "ოტო ზელცი"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Selz"
    title: "Otto Selz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q74856"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump