Heinz Werner
Heinz Werner · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Developmental psychologist known for the orthogenetic principle
1890, Vienna, Austria — 1964, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
Austria · Germany · United States
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Heinz Werner was an Austrian-American developmental psychologist, one of the founders of comparative and organismic-developmental psychology, best known for the orthogenetic principle that development proceeds from global, undifferentiated states toward increasing differentiation and hierarchic integration. Forced out of Germany by the Nazis, he built a distinguished career at Clark University. He was of Jewish descent.
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Developmental psychologist known for the orthogenetic principle
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