Kurt Lewin How our environment shapes our behavior. By PT Staff published March 1, 2001 - last reviewed on June 4, 2025 ...

A refugee from Nazi Germany, Kurt Lewin, founded social psychology. Imagine a world where the U.S. shipped him back to die with his mother and sister in the concentration camps.

Kurt Lewin said that there is nothing so practical as a good theory. Psychological theories are valuable for guiding practice in education, mental health, business, and other domains. They provide ...

Fortunately, psychology ... But the pattern is actually fairly easy to understand using Kurt Lewin’s “field theory.” Lewin was an early Gestalt ... please forgive the gendered dating examples.

“There is nothing as practical as a good theory” was Kurt Lewin’s (1943) way of asserting the value of theory in guiding research that addresses broad social problems. But psychological ...

Kurt Lewin permanently widened the lens of psychology, ... He summed his beliefs up in his "field theory," contending that we all occupy a "life space" that comprises both internal and ...

Kurt Lewin was the doctoral advisor to Leon Festinger, who gave the world social comparison theory (Festinger, 1954) and cognitive dissonance theory (Festinger, 1957).

Kurt Lewin said that there is nothing so practical as a good theory. Psychological theories are valuable for guiding practice in education, mental health, business, and other domains. They provide ...

Kurt Lewin How our environment shapes our behavior. By PT Staff published March 1, 2001 - last reviewed on June 9, 2016 ...