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PhD Psychology University of California, Berkeley
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According to Wikipedia, Abraham S. Luchins was an American Gestalt Psychologist and a pioneer of group psychotherapy. He was born in Brooklyn, New York and died in New York. Biography Luchins was a student and staff member of Max Wertheimer, the main originator of Gestalt Psychology. After Max Wertheimer fled to the US and started lecturing at the New School for Social Research, Luchins worked as his assistant and became one of his closest collaborators from 1936 till 1942. In the 1970s he and his wife Edith Hirsch published a series of transcripts and reports on Wertheimer's advanced seminars and workshops.

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Abraham S. Luchins's Published Works

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Mechanization in problem solving: The effect of Einstellung. (1942) (1090)
New Experimental Attempts at Preventing Mechanization in Problem Solving (1950) (163)
Rigidity of behavior : a variational approach to the effect of Einstellung (1961) (163)
Definitiveness of Impression and Primacy-Recency in Communications (1958) (67)
Wertheimer's seminars revisited : problem solving and thinking (1970) (67)
Logical foundations of mathematics for behavioral scientists (1965) (66)
Forming impressions of personality; a critique. (1948) (62)
Social Influences on Perception of Complex Drawings (1945) (59)
On an approach to social perception. (1950) (58)
On agreement with another's judgments. (1944) (45)
On Conformity with True and False Communications (1955) (43)
REACTIONS TO INCONSISTENCIES: PHENOMENAL VERSUS LOGICAL CONTRADICTIONS. (1965) (42)
On recent usage of the Einstellung-effect as a test of rigidity. (1951) (38)
Previous Experience with Ambiguous and Non-Ambiguous Perceptual Stimuli under Various Social Influences (1955) (38)
The effect of differential post-weaning environment on the rigidity of an animal's behavior. (1955) (38)
Rigidity and ethnocentrism; a critique. (1949) (36)
The Einstellung test of rigidity: its relation to concreteness of thinking. (1951) (31)
An evaluation of some current criticisms of Gestalt psychological work on perception. (1951) (26)
Children's attitudes toward homogeneous groupings. (1948) (24)
The stimulus field in social psychology. (1950) (24)
The rise and decline of the American asylum movement in the 19th century. (1988) (24)
The Autokinetic Effect and Gradations of Illumination of the Visual Field (1954) (23)
A Variational Approach to Social Influences on Perception (1955) (20)
Revisiting Wertheimer's Seminars. (1980) (20)
Proposed methods of studying degrees of rigidity in behavior. (1947) (20)
Situational and attitudinal influences on Rorschach responses. (1947) (20)
Variables and functions. (1954) (20)
On Conformity with Judgments of a Majority or an Authority (1961) (19)
The Effects of Order of Presentation of Information and Explanatory Models (1970) (16)
Methods of studying the progress and outcomes of a group psychotherapy program. (1947) (14)
Effects of Varying the Administration of the Digit Symbol Subtest of the Wechsler-Bellevue Intelligence Scale (1953) (14)
Classroom experiments on mental set. (1946) (13)
Social Influences on Impressions of Personality (1961) (13)
Task Complexity and order Effects in Computer Presentation of Water Jar Problems. (1991) (13)
Imitation by Rote and by Understanding (1961) (13)
The Relation of Size of Light to Autokinetic Effect (1954) (13)
The einstein-wertheimer correspondence on geometric proofs and mathematical puzzles (1990) (13)
A Variational Approach to Empathy (1957) (12)
Group therapy : a guide (1964) (12)
The water jar experiments and Einstellung effects: II. Gestalt psychology and past experience. (1994) (11)
Primacy and Recency Effects with Descriptions of Moral and Immoral Behavior (1986) (11)
The Autokinetic Effect in Central and Peripheral Vision (1954) (10)
Moral treatment in asylums and general hospitals in 19th-century America. (1989) (10)
Implications of gestalt psychology for AV learning (1961) (10)
ANCHORAGE AND ORDERING EFFECTS OF INFORMATION ON PERSONALITY IMPRESSION. (1965) (9)
A Structural Approach to the Teaching of the Concept of Area in Intuitive Geometry (1947) (9)
Einstellung Effect and Group Problem Solving (1969) (8)
Teaching experimental psychology to clinical students. (1949) (8)
Primacy-Recency in Communications Reflecting Attitudes toward Segregation (1962) (8)
Conceptions of Personality and Order Effects in Forming Impressions (1984) (8)
The Satiation Theory of Figural After-Effects and Gestalt Principles of Perception (1953) (7)
Geometric problem solving related to differences in sex and mathematical interests. (1979) (7)
Restructuring social perceptions: a group psychotherapy technique. (1950) (7)
Problem-centered training in the development of the clinician. (1948) (7)
THE ROLE OF UNDERSTANDING IN SOCIAL INFLUENCES OF JUDGMENT. (1963) (7)
Specialized audio-aids in a group psychotherapy program for psychotics. (1948) (7)
The cult of curability and the doctrine of perfectibility: social context of the nineteenth-century American asylum movement (1992) (7)
Einstellung Effect in Social Learning (1961) (7)
The role of the social field in psychotherapy. (1948) (7)
On the relationship between figural after-effects and the principle of Prägnanz. (1952) (7)
Personality Impressions from Communications Reflecting Attitudes toward Segregation (1962) (7)
Focusing on the object of judgment in the social situation. (1963) (7)
Effects of preconceptions and communications on impressions of a person. (1970) (6)
Patients view the therapist: a training and research device. (1951) (6)
Einstellung effects. (1987) (6)
Group structures in group psychotherapy. (1947) (6)
Learning A Complex Ritualized Social Role (1966) (6)
Personality and Prejudice: A Critique (1950) (6)
A course in group psychotherapy; method, content and results. (1946) (6)
An Approach to Evaluating the Achievements of Group Psychotherapy (1960) (6)
The water jar experiments and Einstellung effects: I. Early history and surveys of textbook citations. (1994) (6)
Influence of Experience with Conflicting Information on Reactions to Subsequent Conflicting Information (1960) (6)
Towards intrinsic methods in testing. (1946) (5)
Consequences for agreeing with another's wrong judgments. (1966) (5)
Computer simulation, algorithms, and heuristics in Einstellung effects (1989) (5)
ISOMORPHISM IN GESTALT THEORY: COMPARISON OF WERTHEIMER’S AND KÖHLER’S CONCEPTS (2013) (5)
On training clinical psychologists in psychotherapy. (2000) (5)
Social influences on judgments of descriptions of people. (1963) (5)
Towards an experimental clinical psychology. (1952) (5)
The place of Gestalt Theory in American psychology A case study (1975) (5)
Hospital-community relationships. (1959) (5)
ON SOME ASPECTS OF THE CREATIVITY PROBLEM IN THINKING (1960) (5)
Social control doctrines of mental illness and the medical profession in nineteenth-century America. (1993) (5)
Cooperativeness of task in relation to discovery of source of contradictory communications. (1957) (4)
A conflict in norms; metric versus English units of linear measurement. (1947) (4)
The Satiation Theory of Figural After-Effects and the Principle of Prägnanz (1953) (4)
Half views and autokinetic effect (1963) (4)
Sex Differences in Reasons Given for Responses to the Water-Jar Problems (1984) (4)
The effect of massing or spacing communications on primacy effect. (1968) (4)
Problems in social psychology (1978) (4)
On the theories and problems of adolescence. (1954) (4)
The Einstellung Phenomenon and Effortfulness of Task (1954) (4)
ON THE STUDY OF INVARIANTS. (1964) (4)
Some Approaches to Studying the Individual (1965) (3)
A Social-Experimental Approach to Group Psychotherapy (1955) (3)
Intentional and Unintentional Models in Social Learning (1961) (3)
Conformity: task vs. social requirements. (1967) (3)
A functional approach to clinical psychology. (1956) (3)
Experiences with closed ward group psychotherapy. (1947) (3)
INTEGRATION OF CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL-THEORETICAL PSYCHOLOGY THROUGH CORE COURSES: Monograph Supplement 4 (1955) (3)
Survey of the hospital. (1959) (2)
The Effect of the Degree of Freedom of Choice on Learning and Perception (1962) (2)
Motivation to Tell the Truth Vs. Social Influences (1968) (2)
Primacy Effects and the Nature of the Communications: Movie Pictures. (1984) (2)
Fundamentals of Psychology: The Psychology of Thinking (1961) (2)
Social influences on judgments involving the lower senses: odors. (1967) (2)
Influences on Perception of Previous Experience with Ambiguous and Non-Ambiguous Stimuli (1955) (2)
COMMENTS ON THE CONCEPT OF CLOSURE (1959) (2)
Wertheimer's seminars revisited : problems in perception (1972) (2)
Influences of Memorizing Information on Impressions of a Person (1985) (1)
Extensions from Wertheimer's model of discrimination learning. (1968) (1)
Discovering the Source of Contradictory Communications (1956) (1)
On certain misuses of the Wechsler-Bellevue scales. (1946) (1)
Social influences on judgments involving lower senses: weights. (1967) (1)
Effects of Different Attitudes Toward Racial Integration on Impressions of a Person (1985) (1)
The referent of the frame of reference (1963) (1)
Gestalt theory, formal models and mathematical modeling (1993) (1)
EFFECTS OF ORDER OF EVIDENCE ON SOCIAL INFLUENCES ON JUDGMENT. (1963) (1)
Two philosophies of science: A study in contrasts (2004) (1)
Value, social influences, and power (1978) (0)
Review of Our age of unreason. (1953) (0)
Study of work details. (1959) (0)
On training clinical psychologists in psychotherapy. 1949. (2000) (0)
ON THE AWARENESS AND DENOTATION OF CONTRADICTIONS. (1964) (0)
Relating the Old and New in Psychology of Thinking. (1972) (0)
The Project Method of Teaching Psychology: A Rejoinder to Dr. Cason (1951) (0)
Comments on Katona's review. (1981) (0)
Practice and levels of theory. (1967) (0)
Awareness of Change in Forming Impressions of Personality (1986) (0)
ON TRAINING PSYCHOLOGISTS FOR MENTAL HOSPITALS. (1964) (0)
Numbers and counting: Intuitionistic and gestalt psychological viewpoints (1988) (0)
Mathematical ability: is sex a factor? (1981) (0)
Psychotic patients' impressions of a person from written descriptions. (1984) (0)
Strengthening Motivational Factors to Tell the Truth (1970) (0)
Essay reviewMind and brain: a philosophy of science.: Arturo Rosenblueth Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1970. xii + 128 pp. $5.95. (1971) (0)
Logical foundations of mathematics for behavioral scientits / by Abraham S. Luchins and Edith H. Luchins (1965) (0)
The problem of truth in the study of perception (1963) (0)
Review of Theoretical foundations of psychology. (1952) (0)
A Functional Approach to Training in Clinical Psychology: Via Study of a Mental Hospital (2012) (0)
Einstellung Effects (1987) (0)
Audit of a functional unit and action research. (1959) (0)
Study of hospital personnel. (1959) (0)
Science in the Clinic: A Predicament. (1960) (0)

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