Herman A. Witkin

Herman A. Witkin (August 2, 1916—July 8, 1979) was an American psychologist whose interests lied in the spheres of cognitive psychology and learning psychology. He was a pioneer of the theory of Cognitive styles and Learning styles (developed in cooperation with Solomon Asch, Donald Goodenough etc.), which he preferred to diagnoze not by questionnaires but by more objective means, such as projective tests, task-solving tests etc. Author of the concept of field-dependency vs. field-independency.

Links

 * Short biography in Spanish
 * The Model of field-dependency and field-independency