In Commenting on the Development of Social Psychology in the U.S

question 42

Multiple Choice

In commenting on the development of social psychology in the U.S., Dorwin Cartwright (1979) wrote, "If I were required to name the one person who has had the greatest impact on the field, it would have to be Adolf Hitler." By this he meant that __________.

• A) Hitler's Mein Kampf was a philosophical treatise that influenced psychology
• B) Gestalt psychology came to the U.S. when Gestalt psychologists fled the Nazi regime
• C) Hitler used social-psychological principles to control the citizens of Germany
• D) World War II stimulated the U.S. economy, and there was more research funding for psychologists

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