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Herman A. Witkin
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Herman A. Witkin

American psychologist
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    Klein and Herman Witkin in the 1940s and ’50s were able to show that several cognitive controls were relatively stable over a class of situations and intentions. For example, the psychologists found a stable tendency in some people to blur distinctions between successively appearing stimuli so that…

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    Klein and Herman Witkin in the 1940s and ’50s were able to show that several cognitive controls were relatively stable over a class of situations and intentions. For example, the psychologists found a stable tendency in some people to blur distinctions between successively appearing stimuli so that…

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