Table of ContentsView AllTable of ContentsSelected Kurt Lewin QuotesFrom A Dynamic Theory of Personality (1935)From Resolving Social Conflicts (1948)From Field Theory in Social Science (1951)

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Selected Kurt Lewin Quotes

From A Dynamic Theory of Personality (1935)

From Resolving Social Conflicts (1948)

From Field Theory in Social Science (1951)

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The following sections cover quotes from other works of Kurt Lewin.

This book contains reprints of the papers most essential to Lewin’s viewpoints:

This book covers Lewin’s interest in the causes of social conflict and his efforts to uncover techniques for preventing and, as the title states, resolving them.

This work outlines 11 papers critical to Lewin’s constructs of social science and major findings derived from his research:

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McCain KW. “Nothing as practical as a good theory” Does Lewin’s Maxim still have salience in the applied social sciences?Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology.2015;52(1):1-4. doi:10.1002/pra2.2015.145052010077Jennex ME.Effective Knowledge Management Systems in Modern Society.IGI Global; 2018.

McCain KW. “Nothing as practical as a good theory” Does Lewin’s Maxim still have salience in the applied social sciences?Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology.2015;52(1):1-4. doi:10.1002/pra2.2015.145052010077

Jennex ME.Effective Knowledge Management Systems in Modern Society.IGI Global; 2018.

Lewin K.A Dynamic Theory of Personality. New York: McGraw-Hill; 1935.

Lewin K.Field Theory in Social Science: Selected Theoretical Papers.Cartwright D, ed. New York: Harper & Row; 1951.

Lewin K.Resolving Social Conflicts.New York: Harper & Row; 1948.

Lewin K.The Complete Social Scientist: A Kurt Lewin Reader. Gold M, ed. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association; 1999.

Lewin K.The Practical Theorist: The Life and Work of Kurt Lewin. Marrow AJ (ed). New York: Basic Books, Inc.; 1969.

Tolman CW, Cherry F, van Hezewijk R, Lubek I (eds.). Problems of theoretical psychology. In:Proceedings of the Sixth Biennial Conference of The International Society for Theoretical Psychology.North York: Captus Press, Inc.; 1996.

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