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Solomon Asch taught in the New School’s Psychology Department in the 1940’s. You can read more about him here. If you’d like to write a more in-depth profile of Solomon Asch, email us at [email protected]. We welcome contributions.
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Arien Mack has been a professor of psychology at the New School for Social Research since 1970, and still teaches today in the Adult Bachelor’s division. You can read more about her here. If you’d like to write a more in-depth profile of Arien Mack, email us at [email protected]. We welcome contributions.
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" It is reasonable to suppose that , when an individual is responding to a situation, his various judgments concerning it do not exist independently for him, but that they affect each other. "
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" Over the last several decades there has been a growing wave of concern over the use and abuse of mind-altering substances that has left in its wake increasingly large expenditures for what is familiarly called the "War on Drugs," despite the simultaneously ever-expanding body of evidence attesting to that war's failure. "
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" In 1946, Solomon Asch wrote that the "thinking of Max Wertheimer has penetrated into nearly every region of psychological inquiry and has left a permanent impress on the minds of psychologists and on their daily work. "
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" Psychology as the behaviorist views it is a purely objective experimental branch of natural science. Its theoretical goal is the prediction and control of behavior. Introspection forms no essential part of its methods, nor is the scientific value of its data dependent upon the readiness with which they lend themselves to interpretation in terms of consciousness. "
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" Cognitive dissonance is a theory centered around the idea that if a person knows various things that are not psychologically consistent with one another, he will, in a variety of ways, try to make them more consistent. "
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" What kind of man, then, does our society need in order to function smoothly? It needs men who co-operate easily in large groups, who want to consume more and more, and whose tastes are standardized and can be easily influenced and anticipated. "
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" The peculiar character of Husserlian phenomenology lies not in its content but in the way the latter is attached. Whatever its sense, an account is phenomenological in the Husserlian sense if, and only if, it is produced "phonologically." "
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The Human Relations Center began in 1951 at the behest of Clara Mayer, the infamous right-hand woman of Alvin Johnson, the long-time director of the school. By 1951, Mayer was Vice President and Dean of the School of Philosophy and Liberal Arts of what was known informally known as the Adult Division (to distinguish it […]