Most people have heard the famous phrase “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.” Now, Northwestern University researchers have used statistical physics to confirm the theory that underlies this famous ...

Most people have heard the adage, “the enemy of my enemy is my friend”. This saying encapsulates a social intuition that people have relied on for generations. Now, researchers at Northwestern ...

“In 1944, psychologists Fritz Heider and Marianne Simmel made a very short, animated film of moving shapes. This is purist cinema. Shapes are just moving around, but it is virtually impossible not to ...

John Heider died in his Lawrence home on May 26, 2010. He was born in Northampton, Massachusetts, on November 7, 1936, and moved to Lawrence in 1947. He graduated from Harvard College in 1960, and he ...

Attribution theory is a field of social psychology, which was born out of the theoritical models of Fritz Heider, Harold Kelley, Edward E. Jones, and Lee Ross. Attribution theory is concerned with the ...