Heinz Werner

1890-1964

Born in Vienna, February 11, 1890

Worked with William Stern, Psychological Institute Hamburg, 1917

University of Michigan, 1933-1936

Harvard, visiting professor, 1937

Wayne County Training School, senior resident. Studied retarded children for 8 years, 1937-1945

Chair of the Psychology Department at Clark University from 1947

References

Fodor, J. A. (1964). Review of Symbol formation by Heinz Werner and Bernard Kaplan. Language, 40, 566-579.

Langer, J. (1970). Werner's comparative organismic theory. In P. Mussen (Ed.), Carmichael's manual of child psychology (3rd ed., pp. 733-771). NY: John Wiley & Sons.

Langer, J., Wapner, S., & Werner, H. (1961). The effect of danger upon the experience of time. Americal Journal of Psychology., 74, 94-97.

Langer, J., Werner, H., & Wapner, S. (1965). Apparent speed of walking under conditions of danger. Journal of General Psychology, 73, 291-298.

Rapaport, D. (1941). Review of H. Werner's Comparative psychology of mental development. Journal of Genetic Psychology, 59, 429-434.

Wapner, S., & Kaplan, B. (1966). Heinz Werner 1890-1964. Worcester, Mass: Clark University Press.

Wapner, S., & Werner, H. (1957). Perceptual development. Worcester, Mass: Clark University Press.

Wapner, S., & Werner, H. (1965). An experimental approach to body perception from the organismic-developmental point of view. In S. Wapner & H. Werner (Eds.), The body percept. NY: Random House.

Werner, H. (1937). Process and achievement. Harvard Educational Review, 7, 353-368.

Werner, H. (1940). Comparative psychology of mental development. NY: International Universities Press, Inc.

Werner, H. (1944). Development of the visuo-motor performance on the marble board test in mentally retarded children. Journal of Genetic Psychology, 64, 269.

Werner, H. (1946). The concept of rigidity. Psychological Review, 53, 43-52.

Werner, H. (1957). The concept of development from a comparative and orgaismic point of view. In D. Harris (Ed.), The concept of development. Minneapolis, Minn: University of Minnesota Press.

Werner, H., & Bowers, M. (1941). Auditory-motor organization in two clinical types of mentally deficient children. Journal of Genetic Psycholgy., 59, 85.

Werner, H., & Carrison, D. (1942). Measurement and development of the finger schema in mentally retarded children. Journal of Educational Psychology, 252-264.

Werner, H., & Carrison, D. (1944). Animistic thinking in brain-injured mentally retarded children. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 39, 43-62.

Werner, H., & Kaplan, B. (1963). Symbol formation: An organismic developmental approach to language and the expression of thought. NY: John Wiley.

Werner, H., & Kaplan, E. (1952). The acquisition of word meanings: A developmental study. Monographs of Social Research in Child Development, 15(Whole nunber 51).

Werner, H., & Strauss, A. (1939a). Problems and methods of functional analysis in mentally deficient children. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 34, 37-62.

Werner, H., & Strauss, A. (1939b). Types of visuo-motor activity in their relation to low and high performance ages. Proc. American Association of Mental Deficiency, 44, 163.

Werner, H., & Strauss, A. (1940). Causal factors in low performance. American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 45, 213-218.

Werner, H., & Strauss, A. (1941). Pathology of figure ground relation in the child. Journal of Abnormal Social Psychology, 36, 236-248.

Werner, H., & Thuma, B. (1942). A deficiency in the perception of apparent motion in children with brain injury. American Journal of Psychology, 55, 58-67.

Werner, H., & Wapner, S. (1955). Changes in psychological distance under conditions of danger. Journal of Personality, 24, 153-167.

Werner, H., & Weid, A. (1956). A figure-ground syndrome in the brain-injured child. Int. Record of Med. Gener. Pract. Clinics, 169, 362-367.

Witkin, H. (1965). Heinz Werner 1890-1964. Child Development, 36, 307-328.