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Deutsch, Morton

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Morton Deutsch was born prematurely on February 4th 1920 to Charles and Ida Deustch in Bronx, New York. He was the youngest son in this middle-class Jewish family. His parents had immigrated to America from Poland. Deutsch skipped several grades in both elementary and high school, graduating at fifteen and entering the City College of New York in Fall of 1935. He was initially premed, wanting to become a psychiatrist; however, he switched his major to psychology. After graduating from City College, he earned his Masters at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in 1940. He then stated a rotating clinical internship at Letchworth Village, Warwick and Rockland State hospital, all in New York (Deutsch 1999; Frydenberg 2005).

After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Morton Deutsch enlisted in the Air Force in January of 1942. Initially assigned to the psychological unit, he performed psychological assessments of aviation. Deutsch then trained as a navigator and...

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  • Deutsch, M. (1999). A personal perspective on the development of social psychology in the twentieth century. In A. Rodriguez & R. V. Levine (Eds.), Reflections on 100 years of experimental social psychology (pp. 1–34). New York: Basic Books.

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  • Frydenberg, E. (2005). Morton Deutsch: a life and legacy of mediation and conflict resolution. Brisbane: Australian Academic Press.

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  1. Pace University, 809 Park Place #3C, 11216, Brooklyn, NY, USA

    Dr. Lisa M. Brown B.A., M.A.

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  1. Department of Psychology, Fordham University, New York, NY, USA

    Robert W. Rieber

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Brown, L.M. (2012). Deutsch, Morton. In: Rieber, R.W. (eds) Encyclopedia of the History of Psychological Theories. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0463-8_328

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