Maria Ovsiankina

Maria Ovsiankina
Born(1898-05-03)3 May 1898
Chita, Russian Empire
Died28 September 1993(1993-09-28) (aged 95)
Berkeley, California
OccupationPsychologist
Known forOvsiankina effect

Maria Arsenjevna Rickers-Ovsiankina (1898–1993) was a Russian-German-American psychologist. She studied what is now known as the Ovsiankina effect, a variation of the Zeigarnik effect. Ovsiankina worked in a variety of psychology jobs, including working with schizophrenia patients. She wrote books about psychological testing.

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