Gestalt Psychology, Kurt Lewin, & Social Psychology: The Perfect Match

Most people don't realise that social psychology has strong Gestalt influences. In this video, I talk about those origins, focusing on Kurt Lewin's work on leadership, motivation, personality, and group dynamics. I also show how other early social psychology pioneers, such as Fritz Heider, Solomon Asch, and Leon Festinger, also used Gestalt psychology principles in their work.
Here's a link to the article we wrote in 1997:
Read, Vanman, & Miller (1997). Connectionism, parallel constraint satisfaction processes, and gestalt principles:(Re) introducing cognitive dynamics to social psychology: journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/...
✨TIMELINE:
0:00 Our 1997 Article on Gestalt Psych
1:19 Kurt Lewin's Life & Career
7:09 Some of Lewin's Contributions
16:31 Other Gestalt Social Psychologists
20:48 Final Thoughts
#psychology #gestaltpsychology #historyofpsychology
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I received my Ph.D. from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. I joined the School of Psychology at the University of Queensland in Australia in 2007, where my research and teaching are focused on social neuroscience.
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  • @hansbleuer3346
    @hansbleuer334610 ай бұрын

    Spannende und didaktisch hervorragend gestaltete Vorlesung. Danke. You'll never walk alone.

  • @ancapopa9038
    @ancapopa903817 күн бұрын

    Transactional Analysis psychotherapists and counsellors use Gestalt methods. You will definitely find them in Czech Republic and the UK.

  • @elvira4653
    @elvira46532 ай бұрын

    Amazing lecture! Thank you so much! Subscribed!

  • @jim6929
    @jim69299 ай бұрын

    A good video/ thanks for putting it out! It seems to me that the late professor Reuven Feuerstein whose theory of learning (“Mediated Learning Experience”) and assessment of learning potential/propensity (“Dynamic Assessment”) - has obvious connections with gestalt psychology. e.g. the use of the Raven’s matrices and Andre Rey’s “organization of dots” I know gestalt psychology is mentioned in the historical information about him.

  • @mindsindialogue
    @mindsindialogue10 ай бұрын

    B equals a function of p and e, B=f(p,e). Within the realm of episteme, using the Aristotelian framework to ground our comprehension, one can depict the 4P of cognitive science. Turning our attention to 'Doxa', stemming from dokeō, leads us the 4E of cognitive science. I might whimsically contend that 'doxa' is then the emergent property of B. Doxa, in this context, is directly accountable for scientific advancement; it consists of ideas examined in the environment, which, upon positive causation, transform into scientific theories concerning the environment. How ironic that Doxa seems to contradict itself in the recent century. I digress, accounting for Gibbson's Ecological Theory of Perception, I would put forth the concept that the modern theological reference to 'god' is not a being in the sky-although epistemically, it's there due to the placement by our epistemic doxa-but rather represents that with which B, or the mind in this specific example, interacts within the environment. What a divine formula indeed.

  • @charlesdarwin5185
    @charlesdarwin518510 ай бұрын

    Limbic system interaction with neocortex.

  • @dawnemile7499
    @dawnemile749910 ай бұрын

    Need for hunger?

  • @dawnemile7499
    @dawnemile749910 ай бұрын

    Tension or problem solving? Tension seems closer to Behavioural Psychology than social psychology.

  • @dawnemile7499
    @dawnemile749910 ай бұрын

    I can see how this theory underpins the current social justice mindset. Unfortunately, knowledge of this theory has produced a flood of people with the Dunning-Kruger effect.

  • @Sazi_de_Afrikan

    @Sazi_de_Afrikan

    10 ай бұрын

    Could you expand? I can see the intuition for your latter statement, but I don’t exactly see why this particular theory influences a “social Justice mindset”

  • @dawnemile7499
    @dawnemile749910 ай бұрын

    These academics always seem to lean toward a God complex and think that they should reinvent the wheel for lesser mortals.

  • @charlesdarwin5185

    @charlesdarwin5185

    10 ай бұрын

    Outsource fear to God.