Leo Joseph Postman (June 7, 1918 – April 22, 2004) was a Russian-born American psychologist known for his research on human memory. He taught at the University...
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refer to: Leo Postman (1918–2004), American psychologist Neil Postman (1931–2003), American author, media theorist and cultural critic Marc Postman American...
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students were Jerome S. Bruner, Anthony Greenwald, Stanley Milgram, Leo Postman, Thomas Pettigrew, and M. Brewster Smith. His brother Floyd Henry Allport...
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rumors. In the 1947 study, The Psychology of Rumor, Gordon Allport and Leo Postman concluded that, "as rumor travels it [...] grows shorter, more concise...
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the same size disks. Similarly, another study conducted by Bruner and Leo Postman showed slower reaction times and less accurate answers when a deck of...
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strong cues. This is known as the 'lucky guessing' criticism. In 1975 Leo Postman conducted experiments on the encoding specificity principle to check...
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"On the Perception of Incongruity: A Paradigm" by Jerome S. Bruner and Leo Postman. Journal of Personality, 18, pp. 206-223. 1949. Yorku.ca Archived 15...
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Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 26(3), 601-635. Leo Postman; Karen Stark (January 1969). "Role of response availability in transfer...
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Pinker Harvard University 2016 Michael Posner University of Oregon 1981 Leo Postman (d. 2004) University of California, Berkeley 1974 Dale Purves Duke University...
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Function of the Number of Categories Into which They Have Been Classified (1952) Doctoral advisors Leo Postman Warner Brown Notable students Brent Roberts...
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