Otto Selz. Otto Selz (14 February 1881 – 27 August 1943) was a German psychologist, born in Munich, Bavaria. He formulated the first non-associationist theory of thinking, in 1913.

And fewer still know that one of its more pre-eminent forebears, Otto Selz, PhD, was killed by the Nazi regime at the height of his career. Selz, a Jewish German psychologist born in 1881 in Munich, studied philosophy at the influential University of Wurzburg in central Germany.

The Otto-Selz-Institute (OSI) (in German: Otto-Selz-Institut für Angewandte Psychologie) is an interdisciplinary research institute at the University of Mannheim. It combines research, teaching and therapy.

Mar 20, 2004 · Otto Selz: Die Selbsterforschung des Denkens Eine kurze Darstellung für die Hamburger Forschungswerkstatt von Peter Mayer (20.03.04) Otto Selz gilt mit seinen frühen Forschungen vor und um den 1. Weltkrieg zum geordneten Denkverlauf als der eigentliche Begründer der modernen Denkpsychologie.

SELZ, OTTO (1881–1944?), German psychologist. Born in Munich, he first taught in Bonn until, in 1923, he was appointed professor at the Handelshochschule (a business college) at Mannheim. In 1933, when the Nazi regime came to power, he was dismissed and he emigrated to …

Otto Selz has been hailed as one of the most important precursors of the cognitive revolution, yet surprisingly few studies of his work exist. He is often mentioned in the context of the Würzburg School of the psychology of thinking and sometimes in the context of Gestalt psychology.

Otto Selz was the President of the Handelshochschule Mannheim (later renamed as University of Mannheim) where he conducted research in theoretical and applied psychology. On account of his Jewish ancestry, he had to resign from this position in 1930. 13 years later, he was killed in the Auschwitz concentration camp.

The German psychologist Otto Selz countered that in many situations this kind of theory would imply the occurrence of errors as often as correct answers to questions and thus was untenable. Selz contended that response selection depends rather on a …

Seit 1921 außerordentlicher Professor für Rechtsphilosophie an der Universität Bonn, folgte Selz 1923 einem Ruf als ordentlichem Professor für Philosophie, Psychologie und Pädagogik an die Handelshochschule Mannheim, der er 1929-1930 als Rektor vorstand.

Jul 14, 2022 · Otto Selz, whose views were closer to those adopted in the cognitive/information-processing revolution in psychology that began in the 1950s, never published in Psychologische Forschung.