Kurt Lewin is read about 350 times a day, in 54 languages.
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Something wrong?He turned psychology outward - from the couch to the conference room, the factory floor, the committee meeting. Lewin made the group itself the subject, watching how people actually behave when they're together, not alone.
A life in dates
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In their own words 10
, It is not the similarity or dissimilarity of individuals that constitutes a group, but interdependence of fate.
The scope of time ahead which influences present behavior, and is therefore to be regarded as part of the present life-space, increases during development.
Only a few years ago one could observe, at least among German psychologists, a quite pessimistic mood.
About this person
Born in Prussia in 1890, Lewin trained in Berlin before fleeing to the United States as the Reich closed in. He landed at Cornell, then Iowa, then MIT, carrying a conviction that psychology shouldn't just describe the world but change it. His research focused on applied problems - how groups make decisions, how organizations evolve, how action and inquiry could fold into one process. The work earned him a reputation as the founder of social psychology and a place among the first to study group dynamics seriously. A 2002 survey ranked him the 18th-most cited psychologist of the twentieth century. He died in 1947, fourteen years after leaving Germany, having spent those years building the field from scratch.
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