Hildegard Therese Himmelweit
Hildegard Therese Himmelweit (née Litthauer) (* 1918 ; † 1989 ) was a British social psychologist of German origin.
Himmelweit emigrated to Great Britain in 1935 and was awarded a Ph.D. in 1945 by Hans Eysenck. PhD. From 1948 to 1983 she taught at the London School of Economics and Political Science . In 1964 she became the first professor of social psychology in Great Britain there.
She became internationally known for her studies of the effect of television on social consciousness. She also examined pre-election decision-making processes in the context of political psychology .
Web links
- Literature by and about Hildegard Therese Himmelweit in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Lepsius, Rainer : Directory of emigrierter Sozialwissenschaftler , in Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie , special issue 23 (1981), p. 489.
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| SURNAME | Heavenly, Hildegard Therese |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Heaven, Hilde; Litthauer, Hildegard Therese |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British social psychologist of German origin |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1918 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1989 |