Solomon Asch
Solomon Eliot Asch (September 14, 1907 – February 20, 1996) was a Polish-American Gestalt psychologist and pioneer in social psychology. He created seminal pieces of work in impression formation, prestige suggestion, conformity, and many other topics. His work follows a common theme of Gestalt psychology that the whole is not only greater than the sum of its parts, but the nature of the whole fundamentally alters the parts.
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- Born in
- Warsaw
- Educated at
- Columbia UniversityCity University of New YorkCity College of New York
- Awards
- 🏆 Guggenheim Fellowship🏆 William James Fellow Award🏆 APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Max Wertheimer
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1907
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Birth1996
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