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56 relations: Abraham Maslow, Alastair M. Taylor, Albert Ellis, Alfred Korzybski, Allan Hobson, Allen Walker Read, Alvin M. Weinberg, Ashley Montagu, Barbara Morgan, Ben Bova, Buckminster Fuller, Clyde Kluckhohn, Deborah Tannen, Douglas Rushkoff, Ellen Langer, Elwood Murray, F. S. C. Northrop, Fritz Roethlisberger, General semantics, George Steiner, Gregory Bateson, Henri Laborit, Henry Margenau, Jacob Bronowski, James Van Allen, Jane Mouton, Jerome Bruner, Joost Meerloo, Karl H. Pribram, Lancelot Law Whyte, Leonard Shlain, Lotfi A. Zadeh, Lou Marinoff, Marjorie Kendig, Mary Catherine Bateson, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Neil Postman, Nicholas Johnson, Renee Hobbs, Robert Anton Wilson, Robert L. Carneiro, Robert P. Pula, Robert R. Blake, Sanford I. Berman, Shawn Lawrence Otto, Sherry Turkle, Steve Allen, Stuart Chase, Ted Sizer, Terrence Deacon, ..., Thomas Sebeok, Warren M. Robbins, Warren Sturgis McCulloch, Wendell Johnson, William D. Lutz, William Vogt. Expand index (6 more) »
Abraham Maslow
Abraham Harold Maslow (April 1, 1908 – June 8, 1970) was an American psychologist who was best known for creating Maslow's hierarchy of needs, a theory of psychological health predicated on fulfilling innate human needs in priority, culminating in self-actualization.
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Alastair M. Taylor
Alastair MacDonald Taylor (March 12, 1915 – October 15, 2005) was a Canadian historian, filmmaker, United Nations official, professor of geography and political studies, and interdisciplinary thinker.
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Albert Ellis
Albert Ellis (September 27, 1913 – July 24, 2007) was an American psychologist who in 1955 developed Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT).
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Alfred Korzybski
Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski (July 3, 1879 – March 1, 1950) was a Polish-American independent scholar who developed a field called general semantics, which he viewed as both distinct from, and more encompassing than, the field of semantics.
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Allan Hobson
John Allan Hobson (born June 3, 1933) is an American psychiatrist and dream researcher.
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Allen Walker Read
Allen Walker Read (June, American Name Society, accessed February 15, 2007. 2,, November 8, 2002, obituary. 1906 – October 16, 2002) was an American etymologist and lexicographer, best known for his studies into the words "OK" and "fuck." Read was born in Winnebago, Minnesota, earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Northern Iowa (then called Iowa State Teachers College) in 1925, a master's degree from the University of Iowa in 1926, and studied at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar from 1928 to 1931.
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Alvin M. Weinberg
Alvin Martin Weinberg (April 20, 1915 – October 18, 2006) was an American nuclear physicist who was the administrator at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) during and after the Manhattan Project.
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Ashley Montagu
Montague Francis Ashley-Montagu (June 28, 1905November 26, 1999), previously known as Israel Ehrenberg, was a British-American anthropologist who popularized the study of topics such as race and gender and their relation to politics and development.
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Barbara Morgan
Barbara Radding Morgan (born November 28, 1951) is an American teacher and a former NASA astronaut.
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Ben Bova
Benjamin William "Ben" Bova (born November 8, 1932) is an American writer.
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Buckminster Fuller
Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller (July 12, 1895 – July 1, 1983) was an American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist.
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Clyde Kluckhohn
Clyde Kluckhohn (January 11, 1905, Le Mars, Iowa – July 28, 1960, near Santa Fe, New Mexico), was an American anthropologist and social theorist, best known for his long-term ethnographic work among the Navajo and his contributions to the development of theory of culture within American anthropology.
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Deborah Tannen
Deborah Frances Tannen (born June 7, 1945) is an American academic and professor of linguistics at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. She has been a McGraw Distinguished Lecturer at Princeton University and was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences following a term in residence at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ.
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Douglas Rushkoff
Douglas Mark Rushkoff (born 18 February 1961) is an American media theorist, writer, columnist, lecturer, graphic novelist, and documentarian.
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Ellen Langer
Ellen Jane Langer (born March 25, 1947) is a professor of psychology at Harvard University; in 1981, she became the first woman ever to be tenured in psychology at Harvard.
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Elwood Murray
Elwood Murray (1897-1988) was an American administrator and scientist in the field of speech communications and general semantics.
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F. S. C. Northrop
Filmer Stuart Cuckow Northrop (November 27, 1893 in Janesville, Wisconsin – July 21, 1992 in Exeter, New Hampshire) was an American philosopher.
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Fritz Roethlisberger
Fritz Jules Roethlisberger (1898 – 1974) was a social scientist, management theorist at the Harvard Business School.
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General semantics
General semantics is a self improvement and therapy program begun in the 1920s that seeks to regulate human mental habits and behaviors.
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George Steiner
Francis George Steiner, FBA (born April 23, 1929) is a French-born American literary critic, essayist, philosopher, novelist, and educator.
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Gregory Bateson
Gregory Bateson (9 May 1904 – 4 July 1980) was an English anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, visual anthropologist, semiotician, and cyberneticist whose work intersected that of many other fields.
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Henri Laborit
Henri Laborit (21 November 1914 – 18 May 1995) was a French surgeon, writer and philosopher.
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Henry Margenau
Henry Margenau (April 30, 1901 – February 8, 1997) was a German-American physicist, and philosopher of science.
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Jacob Bronowski
Jacob Bronowski (18 January 1908 – 22 August 1974) was a Polish-born British mathematician, historian of science, theatre author, poet and inventor.
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James Van Allen
James Alfred Van Allen (September 7, 1914August 9, 2006) was an American space scientist at the University of Iowa.
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Jane Mouton
Jane Srygley Mouton (April 15, 1930 in Port Arthur, Texas – December 7, 1987) was an American management theorist, remembered in particular for developing the Managerial grid model with Robert R. Blake.
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Jerome Bruner
Jerome Seymour Bruner (October 1, 1915 – June 5, 2016) was an American psychologist who made significant contributions to human cognitive psychology and cognitive learning theory in educational psychology.
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Joost Meerloo
Joost Abraham Maurits Meerloo (March 14, 1903 – November 17, 1976) was a Dutch/American Doctor of Medicine and psychoanalyst.
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Karl H. Pribram
Karl H. Pribram (February 25, 1919 – January 19, 2015) was a professor at Georgetown University, in the United States, an emeritus professor of psychology and psychiatry at Stanford University and distinguished professor at Radford University.
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Lancelot Law Whyte
Lancelot Law Whyte (1896–1972) was a Scottish philosopher, theoretical physicist, historian of science and financier.
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Leonard Shlain
Leonard Shlain (August 28, 1937 – May 11, 2009) was a US surgeon, author, and inventor.
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Lotfi A. Zadeh
Lotfi Aliasker Zadeh (Lütfəli Rəhim oğlu Ələsgərzadə; لطفی علیعسگرزاده; February 4, 1921 – September 6, 2017) was a mathematician, computer scientist, electrical engineer, artificial intelligence researcher and professor emeritus of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Lou Marinoff
Louis Joshua Marinoff (born October 18, 1951) is a philosopher, author, and philosophical practitioner.
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Marjorie Kendig
Marjorie Kendig Gates (1892–1981), best known as M. Kendig, was an American administrator, director of the Institute of General Semantics from 1950 until 1965, and co-worker of Alfred Korzybski, who developed the theory of general semantics.
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Mary Catherine Bateson
Mary Catherine Bateson (born December 8, 1939) is an American writer and cultural anthropologist.
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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (Csíkszentmihályi Mihály,; born 29 September 1934) is a Hungarian-American psychologist.
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Neil Postman
Neil Postman (March 8, 1931 – October 5, 2003) was an American author, educator, media theorist and cultural critic, who is best known for his seventeen books, including Amusing Ourselves to Death (1985), Conscientious Objections (1988), ''Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology'' (1992), The Disappearance of Childhood (1994) and The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School (1995).
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Nicholas Johnson
Nicholas Johnson (born September 23, 1934) is best known for his controversial term as a dissenting Federal Communications Commission commissioner, 1966-1973, and his book, How to Talk Back to Your Television Set.
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Renee Hobbs
Renee Hobbs is an American scholar and educator who works in the field of media literacy education.
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Robert Anton Wilson
Robert Anton Wilson (born Robert Edward Wilson; January 18, 1932 – January 11, 2007) was an American author, novelist, essayist, editor, playwright, poet, futurist, and self-described agnostic mystic.
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Robert L. Carneiro
Robert Leonard Carneiro (born in New York City on June 4, 1927) is a prominent American anthropologist and curator of the American Museum of Natural History.
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Robert P. Pula
Robert P. Pula (1928–2004) was a Director Emeritus of the Institute of General Semantics, author of A General-Semantics Glossary, and a composer.
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Robert R. Blake
Robert R. Blake (January 21, 1918 – June 20, 2004) was an American management theoretician.
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Sanford I. Berman
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Shawn Lawrence Otto
Shawn Lawrence Otto is an American novelist, nonfiction author, filmmaker, political strategist, speaker, science advocate, and screenwriter and co-producer of the movie House of Sand and Fog.
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Sherry Turkle
Sherry Turkle (born June 18, 1948) is the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Steve Allen
Stephen Valentine Patrick William Allen (December 26, 1921 – October 30, 2000) was an American television personality, radio personality, musician, composer, actor, comedian, writer, and advocate of scientific skepticism.
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Stuart Chase
Stuart Chase (March 8, 1888 – November 16, 1985) was an American economist, social theorist, and writer.
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Ted Sizer
Theodore Ryland Sizer (June 23, 1932 – October 21, 2009) was a leader of educational reform in the United States, the founder (and eventually President Emeritus) of the Essential school movement and was known for challenging longstanding practices and assumptions about the functioning of American secondary schools.
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Terrence Deacon
Terrence William Deacon (born 1950) is an American Neuroanthropologist (Ph.D. in Biological Anthropology, Harvard University 1984).
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Thomas Sebeok
Thomas Albert Sebeok (born Sebők,, in Budapest, Hungary, on November 9, 1920; died December 21, 2001 in Bloomington, Indiana) was a polymath American semiotician and linguist.
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Warren M. Robbins
Warren Murray Robbins (September 4, 1923 – December 4, 2008) was an American art collector, whose collection of African art led to the formation of the National Museum of African Art at the Smithsonian Institution.
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Warren Sturgis McCulloch
Warren Sturgis McCulloch (November 16, 1898 – September 24, 1969) was an American neurophysiologist and cybernetician, known for his work on the foundation for certain brain theories and his contribution to the cybernetics movement.
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Wendell Johnson
Wendell Johnson (April 16, 1906 – August 29, 1965) was an American psychologist, actor and author and was a proponent of general semantics (or GS).
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William D. Lutz
William D. Lutz (born 12 December 1940) is an American linguist who specializes in the use of plain language and the avoidance of doublespeak (deceptive language).
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William Vogt
William Vogt (15 May 1902 – 11 July 1968) was an ecologist and ornithologist, with a strong interest in both the carrying capacity and population control.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_of_General_Semantics
