Fritz Heider (1896-1988) was a German psychologist of the Gestalt school, responsible for developing balance theory and attribution theory in 1958. Born in Austria, he immigrated to the U.S. in the 1930s, teaching at Smith College and eventually University of Kansas.

See also

• Balance theory

1896 births | 1988 deaths | German psychologists

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