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Wolfgang Köhler thought that I had devoted more of my time as an undergraduate student to social sciences and humanities than I should have, and encouraged me to become more conversant with experimental psychology and the natural sciences. While I had been duly indoctrinated into Gestalt theory at Swarthmore (and during my childhood at home), he arranged for me to begin graduate work in experimental psychology at The Johns Hopkins University, where the ghost of the founder of behaviorism, John B. Watson, was still haunting the theoretical orientation of the psychology department.
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Wertheimer, M. (2020). Graduate School: Hopkins. In: Facets of an Academic’s Life. Springer, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-28770-2_5
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