Allen Esterson wrote: > On 29 November, Michael Sylvester wrote: > >> It seems that the certain perspectives in Psychology tells us more >> about historical and popular events at that specific period in history >> than psychologically significant. Humanism was popular in the >> 1960s. Way way back, the dude Kurt Lewin got into field physics >> and came up with Venn diagrams to explain personality, [...] >> > > The mathematician John Venn introduced Venn diagrams around 1880. From the > internet I see that Kurt Lewin only got going in psychology in the 1920s, > so I can't quite see how this fits the notion of certain perspectives in > psychology coinciding with "historical and popular events". And I can't > recall that Venn diagrams play any role in field physics. > > You are correct. Lewin did not use Venn diagram. He used some (very elementary) graphical representations from topology. You can find an example here http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/DPF.CHAP3.HTM -- scroll about halfway down the (rather long) page.
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