Karl Duncker (1903-1940) |
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Karl Duncker developed some of his famous cognitive problems (e.g., the candle problem, and the radiation problem) when he was a 23-year old graduate student at Clark University. He wrote his M.A. Thesis in 1926, and some of the tasks he invented to measure problem solving are still discussed in cognitive psychology today. However, little is known about Duncker's life that tragically ended in suicide when he was only 37 years old. Click here for a paper I wrote on Karl Duncker's life, from his days at the Berlin Institute of Psychology, to his stay at Clark University, and his forced emigration from Nazi Germany. This paper was an invited contribution to From Past to Future: Clark Papers on the History of Psychology. Click below for other contributions in the special issue on "Insights into Life: The Drama of Karl Duncker" Jeanette A. Lawrence & Agnes E. Dodds Kurt Fischer & Jeffrey Stewart |
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