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  2. Fritz Heider - Wikipedia

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    Fritz Heider (19 February 1896 – 2 January 1988) [1] was an Austrian psychologist whose work was related to the Gestalt school. In 1958 he published The Psychology of Interpersonal Relations, which expanded upon his creations of balance theory and attribution theory. This book presents a wide-range analysis of the conceptual framework and the ...

  3. Cognitive miser - Wikipedia

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    The wave of research on attributional biases done by Kahneman, Tversky and others effectively ended the dominance of Heider's naïve scientist within social psychology. [15] Fiske and Taylor, building upon the prevalence of heuristics in human cognition, offered their theory of the cognitive miser.

  4. Balance theory - Wikipedia

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    In the psychology of motivation, balance theory is a theory of attitude change, proposed by Fritz Heider. [1] [2] It conceptualizes the cognitive consistency motive as a drive toward psychological balance. The consistency motive is the urge to maintain one's values and beliefs over time.

  5. Attribution (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    Fritz Heider discovered Attribution theory during a time when psychologists were furthering research on personality, social psychology, and human motivation. [5] Heider worked alone in his research, but stated that he wished for Attribution theory not to be attributed to him because many different ideas and people were involved in the process. [5]

  6. Political cognition - Wikipedia

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    First proposed by Fritz Heider in 1958, the Naïve scientist model [3] of cognition conceptualizes individuals as actors with limited information that want to derive an accurate understanding of the world. Much of the work done within this model focused on examining how people perceive and explain why others behave the way they do.

  7. Social balance theory - Wikipedia

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    Structural balance theory, proposed by the psychologist Fritz Heider in the 1940s, is a framework used to understand the dynamics of relationships within social networks. . The theory focuses on the notion that individuals strive for consistency and harmony in their interpersonal relationshi

  8. Attribution bias - Wikipedia

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    Building on Heider's early work, other psychologists in the 1960s and 1970s extended work on attributions by offering additional related theories. In 1965, social psychologists Edward E. Jones and Keith Davis proposed an explanation for patterns of attribution termed correspondent inference theory. [9]

  9. Behavioral theories of depression - Wikipedia

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    In 1958, Fritz Heider (with the help of Beatrice Wright) wrote "The Psychology of Interpersonal Relations", which pioneered attribution theory. [30] This theory explains the importance of how someone consciously attributes the causes of events in their life.