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I feel that my life in social psychology has been well worth living. (Erika Apfelbaum 2009, p. 34)
Erika Apfelbaum, French experimental social psychologist, was born in 1934 in Germany. She was the chief architect of atheory of power which has influenced the thinking and practice of several researchers, both in France and in the United States,Canada, and Africa. The seminal years for Apfelbaum’swork were those she spent at the Laboratory of Experimental Social Psychology, Sorbonne University, where for more than 30 years she was seniorprofessor and then head of the social psychology unit at the prestigious scientific research center CNRS(Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique). During the golden years of the 1960s, aquiet passion for ideas led her to construct an alternative body of theory to that which might be offered by social psychologists as abase discipline for psychology teaching and research. Apfelbaum was concerned with...
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Elhammoumi, M. (2012). Apfelbaum, Erika. In: Rieber, R.W. (eds) Encyclopedia of the History of Psychological Theories. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0463-8_53
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