Carolina QuotesA conflict is to be characterized psychologically as a situation in which oppositely directed, simultaneously acting forces of approximately equal strength work upon the individual.
Kurt Zadek Lewin Connected to the Carolinas
Source
p. 122.
- work
- A Dynamic Theory of Personality, 1935
- year
- 1935
- locator
- p. 122
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