Lewin, Kurt
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
LEWIN, KURT loo in, 1890 1947, American psychologist, b. Germany, Ph.D. Univ. of Berlin, 1914. He taught at the Univ. of...dynamics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Influenced by Gestalt psychology, he was concerned with problems of motivation of individuals and of groups as determined by the context of a given situation. His work opened up a new realm of psychological...