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Kurt Koffka (Berlin, March 18, 1886 - Northampton, November 22, 1941) was a German psychologist. He was born and educated in Berlin and earned his PhD there in 1909 as a student of ...
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Kurt Koffka (March 18, 1886 – November 22, 1941) was a German psychologist who, together with Max Wertheimer and Wolfgang Köhler, established Gestalt psychology.
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Kurt Koffka (1886-1941), German American psychologist, born in Berlin, and educated at the University of Berlin. With Wolfgang Köhler and Max Wertheimer, he did pioneer work in the studies that led to the development of Gestalt psychology. He went to the United States in the 1920s to teach psychology at Cornell University and the University of Wisconsin, later accepting a permanent position at Smith College, where he remained for the rest of his life. Koffka continued his research on perception, publishing such major works as The Growth of the Mind (1924) and The Principles of Gestalt Psychology (1935).