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...most prominent psychologist in the world today, was born in Reval, Esthonia, in January, 1887, and was educated in the Universities of Tubingen, Bonn, and Berlin. It was at Berlin that he received his Doctor's degree, and since then has become the leading exponent of the "Gestalt" school of psychology, which has gained rapid favor in recent years...
...will complete a work on the Lichen Flora of Costa Rica; and Dr. C. C. Pratt, assistant professor of Psychology and tutor in the Division of Philosophy, who will continue an investigation of the expressive properties of musical structure by means of methods which are being developed by Gestalt psychologists in Germany...
...rigorous criticism, and for that the men who carry on the work must be able to enjoy the kind of leisure and intellectual fellowship that it is the business of a university to provide. Psychopathology requires contact with all the various attitudes of academic psychology, the sensational, introspective, 'gestalt' and behaviouristic. Just as pathology has come to rest upon normal physiology, so must psychopathology rest upon normal psychology. As there is no course of psychology in the Medical School, it is appropriate that psychology be made a part of the college...
Professor Wolfgang Kohler, who will join the Department of Psychology, is a figure upon whom the eyes of all students of psychology are turned. At the early age of 38, he has done work of the most brilliant sort in experimental psychology and has been the leader of "Gestalt Psychology", a new and radical development in the field...
...mentality of apes in Africa in the years just before the war. He is spending one year in the United States and is at present at Clark University in Worcester. During the first half of next year he will give a seminary in psychology on the subject of "Gestalt Psychology...