Otto Köhler

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Otto Köhler

German industrial psychologist

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Köhler effect
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…by the German industrial psychologist Otto Köhler in the 1920s. He asked members of a Berlin rowing club to perform a difficult task: to do standing curls with a heavy weight—97 pounds (44 kg)—until they were so exhausted that they could not go on. Sometimes they did this alone, and…
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…by the German industrial psychologist Otto Köhler in the 1920s. He asked members of a Berlin rowing club to perform a difficult task: to do standing curls with a heavy weight—97 pounds (44 kg)—until they were so exhausted that they could not go on. Sometimes they did this alone, and…
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