Jane Loevinger
Psychologist, Author
1918 – 2008
Who was Jane Loevinger?
Jane Loevinger Weissman was a developmental psychologist who developed a theory of personality which emphasized the gradual internalization of social rules and the maturing conscience for the origin of personal decisions. She also contributed to the theory of measurements by introducing the coefficient of test homogeneity. In the tradition of developmental stage models, Loevinger integrated several "frameworks of meaning-making" into a model of humans' constructive potentials that she called ego development. The essence of the ego is the striving to master, to integrate, and make sense of experience.
In 1943, she married Samuel Isaac Weissman, a scientist who contributed to the Manhattan Project. They had a son and a daughter.
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- Born
- Feb 6, 1918
Saint Paul - Spouses
- Samuel Isaac Weissman
(1943 - )
- Samuel Isaac Weissman
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of Minnesota
- University of California, Berkeley
- Died
- Jan 4, 2008
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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