Pál Schiller Harkai
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Pál Schiller Harkai Hungarian philosopher and psychologist.

He organized Psychological Institute at Budapest University
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 in 1936.

His career

He acquired a doctorate in philosophy at Budapest University
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 in 1930. Obtained research experiences in Ranschburg Pál Budapest Institute. Obtained a university private tutor qualification at Budapest University in 1936, he went to the University of Berlin
Berlin
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 to get some experience in the institution of the Gestalt psychology
Gestalt psychology
Gestalt psychology or gestaltism is a theory of mind and brain of the Berlin School; the operational principle of gestalt psychology is that the brain is holistic, parallel, and analog, with self-organizing tendencies...

 Wolfgang Köhler
Wolfgang Köhler
Wolfgang Köhler was a German psychologist and phenomenologist who, like Max Wertheimer, and Kurt Koffka, contributed to the creation of Gestalt psychology.-Early life:...

.

In 1936 he graduated as a private teacher at Budapest University and organized Psychological Institute. Hungarian Psychological Association organized his practical psychological department. He edited book series named Psychological Studies which was published by Psychological Institute. Pál Schiller Harkai valuable input to his studies by Wolgang Köhler, Jean Piaget
Jean Piaget
Jean Piaget was a French-speaking Swiss developmental psychologist and philosopher known for his epistemological studies with children. His theory of cognitive development and epistemological view are together called "genetic epistemology"....

 and Karl Bühler teachings. Between 1930-1940 Paul Schiller Harkai, Ferenc Mérei
Ferenc Mérei
Ferenc Mérei was a Hungarian psychologist and educator.- Early life :Born in Budapest into a bourgeois family, Mérei often spent time in his parents’ photography studio at the Garay Bazaar. He did not like school, where he felt excluded and his teachers' brutality caused him much pain...

, László Tihamér Kiss and Hildebrand Dezső Várkonyi
Hildebrand Dezső Várkonyi
Hildebrand Dezső Várkonyi was a monk and a teacher of Bencés order. Várkonyi was a respected and well-known Hungarian philosopher, pedagogue and psychologist....

 was in Hungary Jean Piaget's theories of psychological popularizers.

He took part in the establishing of Aptitude-Institute for Soldier and helped to equip the psychotechnological station of MÁV
Hungarian State Railways
Hungarian State Railways is the Hungarian national railway company, with divisions "MÁV Start Zrt" and "MÁV Cargo Zrt" ....

 and some other companies. He emigrated in 1947 into the United States of America. He perished in a ski accident. More of his posthumous studies appeared, between anything else single Alpha name from the drawing experiments of a female carried out with a chimpanzee
Chimpanzee
Chimpanzee, sometimes colloquially chimp, is the common name for the two extant species of ape in the genus Pan. The Congo River forms the boundary between the native habitat of the two species:...

, that the drawing development induced many debates his biological bases.

His more important works

  • A lélektani kategóriák rendszerének kialakulása. Budapest, 1930. p. 107. (=The conformation oh psychological categories’ systems.)
  • Pszichológia és emberismeret: Bevezetés a pszichológiába és a pszichotechnikába. Budapest, 1934. p. 146. (=Psychology and antropology: Introduction to psychology and psychotecnology.)
  • Dohányzási szokások Budapesten: Gazdaságpszichológiai tanulmány. Budapest, 1938. p. 78. (=Smoking habits on Budapest: Economic psychological study.)
  • Értelempróbák szerkesztése. (Komjáthy Zoltánnal) Magyar Pszichológiai Szemle, 1938. (=Editing of intelligence probes -with Zoltán Komjáthy)
  • A cselekvéstan alaptételei. A cselekvés motivációs elmélete. In Athenaeum, 1939. (=Fundamentals of Action’s science. The theory of action’s motivation.)
  • A lélektan feladata.(=The function of psyche.) Budapest, 1940. (It was also published in 2002 with the epilogue of Csaba Pléh
    Csaba Pléh
    Csaba Pléh is a Hungarian psychologist and linguist, professor at the Department of Cognitive Science, Budapest University of Technology and Economics.-Academic career:...

    )
  • Bevezetés a lélektanba : A cselekvés elemzése. Budapest, 1944. (=Introduction to psychology: The assay of action.)
  • Lélektani tanulmányok: Jelentés a Kir. Magy. Pázmány Péter Tudományegyetem Lélektani Intézetéből / Kornis Gyula és Brandenstein Béla közreműködésével szerk. Harkai Schiller Pál, Budapest, 1937-1947. (=Psychological studies: Report from the Psychological Intitute of the Kir. Magy. Pázmány Péter University
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     / with the contribution of Gyula Kornis and Béla Brandenstein)
  • Paul Ranschburg : 1870-1945. Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell Univ. 1947. From The American Journal of Psychology
    American Journal of Psychology
    The American Journal of Psychology was the first English-language journal devoted primarily to experimental psychology . AJP was founded by the Johns Hopkins University psychologist Granville Stanley Hall in 1887...

    . pp. 444–446.
  • A Hungarian survey on sympathetic attitudes. (Mexiko, 1947.)

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