Heider biography
Heider biography
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Fritz Heider
Austrian psychologist
Fritz Heider (19 February 1896 – 2 January 1988)[1] 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).
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It had taken 15 years to complete; before it was completed it had already circulated through a small group of social psychologists.
Biography
Heider was born in Vienna, Austria on February 19, 1896, but he grew up in Graz.
During his childhood, Heider sustained a serious eye injury which later turned him quite serious and shy in his adolescence.[2] Because of his injury, Heider avoided the draft during World War I.
With his father's encouragement, Heider enrolled to study architecture at the Universi