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Biographies

Jean Piaget: biography of the father of Evolutionary Psychology

The idea that we are not born with the same mental capacities that we are in adulthood probably c...

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Elizabeth Loftus: biography of this American psychologist

Many believe that the brain is like a computer and as such we store many memories completely and ...

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Otto Neurath: biography of this philosopher

Otto Neurath was an important and versatile Marxist philosopher. Born on December 10, 1882 in Vie...

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Steven Pinker: biography, theory and main contributions

Steven Pinker is a linguist, psychologist, and writer known primarily for his role in the dissemi...

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Rudolf Arnheim: biography of this German psychologist and philosopher

Rudolf Arnheim: biography of this German psychologist and philosopher

Rudolf Arnheim was a German psychologist and philosopher who, influenced by Gestalt psychology an...

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John B. Watson: life and work of the behavioral psychologist

John B. Watson, next to Ivan Pavlov, was one of the important characters of the classical conditi...

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Regulatory mechanisms: what they are and how they make the body work

Living beings, both animals and plants, are open systems that obtain nutrients and gases from the...

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Karen Horney and her theory of neurotic personality

Psychiatrist Karen Horney was one of the main representatives of neo-Freudianism, a movement that...

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Genichi Taguchi: biography of this Japanese statistician

Genichi Taguchi: biography of this Japanese statistician

There are different personalities that throughout the 20th century contributed to creating a seri...

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Michel Foucault: biography and contributions of this French thinker

Historian, psychologist, philosopher and social theorist. Michel Foucault was one of the great th...

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Hildegard Peplau: biography of this famous American nurse

The field of nursing is so important today in part thanks to the contributions of people like Hil...

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Max Wertheimer: biography of one of the founders of Gestalt theory

There are many currents within psychology, and Gestalt is one of the most important, with more th...

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