Prof. Michael Wertheimer
Professor emeritus, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
Michael
Wertheimer earned a BA from Swarthmore College, MA from The Johns Hopkins
University, and PhD, in experimental psychology, from Harvard University.
He taught three years at Wesleyan University before going in 1955 to the University
of Colorado at Boulder, becoming full professor in 1961 and professor emeritus
in 1993.
For
almost 40 years MW directed the departmental honors program in psychology
at Colorado; he also directed doctoral programs in experimental psychology
and sociocultural psychology. MW has published several hundred articles and
is author, coauthor, editor, or coeditor of dozens of books; his scholarly
foci included perception, cognition, psycholinguistics, the teaching of psychology,
and the history of psychology.
MW
is a member of the Advisory Board of Gestalt
Theory - An International Multidisciplinary Journal
MW
is coeditor of the first four volumes of the series Portraits of Pioneers
in Psychology, copublished by APA and Erlbaum (the fourth volume of which
appeared in 2000); also published in 2000 was the fourth edition of his A
Brief History of Psychology (Harcourt, Brace).
MW
has been president of four APA divisions (general psychology, teaching of
psychology, theoretical and philosophical psychology, and history of psychology),
the Rocky Mountain Psychological Association, and Psi Chi. Recipient of two
national awards for the teaching of psychology and of several awards for service,
he has been member or chair of many APA boards and committees and served numerous
terms on the APA Council of Representatives. In 2000, APA’s Division 26 presented
him a "lifetime achievement award for sustained, outstanding, and unusual
contributions to the history of psychology."
Michael Wertheimer published in Gestalt Theory - An International Journal:
