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PSYCHOLOGIST

Fritz Heider

1896 - 1988

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Fritz Heider (19 February 1896 – 2 January 1988) was an Austrian psychologist whose work was related to the Gestalt school. In 1958 he published The Psychology of Interpersonal Relations, which expanded upon his creations of balance theory and attribution theory. This book presents a wide-range analysis of the conceptual framework and the psychological processes that influence human social perception (Malle, 2008). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Fritz Heider has received more than 176,495 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Fritz Heider is the 150th most popular psychologist (down from 141st in 2019), the 534th most popular biography from Austria (down from 500th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Austrian Psychologist.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Fritz Heider ranks 150 out of 183Before him are Jordan Peterson, Raymond Moody, James J. Gibson, Bluma Zeigarnik, Rensis Likert, and Julian Rotter. After him are Lisbeth Palme, Kurt Goldstein, Brian Weiss, Robert D. Hare, Gustave Gilbert, and James Hillman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Fritz Heider ranks 109Before him are Josef Sudek, Ludwik Fleck, Erich Hückel, Carl Ludwig Siegel, Léonide Massine, and John of Shanghai and San Francisco. After him are Carl Zuckmayer, Charlie Rivel, Anandamayi Ma, Henry Allingham, Ieronim Uborevich, and He Long. Among people deceased in 1988, Fritz Heider ranks 86Before him are Bluma Zeigarnik, Raymond Williams, Hal Ashby, Viktors Arājs, Mikha'il Na'ima, and Seán MacBride. After him are Charles Addams, Hillel Slovak, Alec Issigonis, Hamengkubuwono IX, Aparicio Méndez, and Erich Fried.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Fritz Heider ranks 534 out of 1,237Before him are Felix Mottl (1856), Gaston Glock (1929), Victor Babeș (1854), Marisa Mell (1939), Wilhelm von Mirbach (1871), and Hans Rott (1858). After him are Ernst Marischka (1893), Archduchess Margaret of Austria (1567), Gitta Sereny (1921), Johannes Mario Simmel (1924), Ilse Aichinger (1921), and Ignaz Seipel (1876).

Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Austria

Among psychologists born in Austria, Fritz Heider ranks 12Before him are Otto Rank (1884), Paul Watzlawick (1921), René Spitz (1887), Otto Gross (1877), Heinz Kohut (1913), and Walter Mischel (1930). After him are Emma Eckstein (1865) and Karl H. Pribram (1919).