Fritz Heider
Fritz Heider | |
|---|---|
| Born | 19 February 1896 |
| Died | 2 January 1988 (aged 91) |
| Citizenship | Austrian, American |
| Occupation | professor |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Graz |
| Thesis | Zur Subjektivität der Sinnesqualitäten (On the subjectivity of sensory qualities) (1920) |
| Doctoral advisor | Alexius Meinong |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Social Psychology |
| Sub-discipline | Social perception |
| Institutions | University of Hamburg Smith College University of Kansas |
| Notable works | The Psychology of Interpersonal Relations |
| Notable ideas | attribution theory |
Fritz Heider (19 February 1896 – 2 January 1988) was an American/Austrian social 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). It had taken 15 years to complete; before it was completed it had already circulated through a small group of social psychologists.