Kurt Lewin's Contribution to the Methodology of Psychology: From Past to Future Skipping the Present

The Observation of Human Systems: Lessons from the History of Anti-Reductionistic Empirical Psychology

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 101-116

  Toomela, Aaro ^a  

^a TALLINN UNIVERSITY   (Estonia)

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EID: 85140698979     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781315133553-6     Document Type: Chapter

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