Max Wertheimer, Habilitation candidate at the Frankfurt Psychological Institute.
2014; American Psychological Association; Volume: 17; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1037/a0036159
ISSN1939-0610
Autores Tópico(s)Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology
ResumoMax Wertheimer told Edwin B. Newman that it was pure chance that on his way to the Rhineland he prematurely got off the train in Frankfurt, and that he did so because he had an inspiration for an experiment that he wanted to perform. Most historians of psychology accept this anecdote, but fail to mention that thereby Wertheimer also mastered the next and decisive step toward his academic career in accomplishing his Habilitation. Exposing the institutional, personal, and intellectual context of Wertheimer's going to Frankfurt and giving a detailed account of the procedure of Habilitation will show that Newman's and similar reports of the episode, even if verbatim to Wertheimer's own telling, are nevertheless too improbable to accept at face value.
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