Associated psychologist links a phenomenon to the researcher most closely connected with identifying or naming it. Wikipedia notes that, with Amos Tversky, Daniel Kahneman "established a cognitive basis for common human errors that arise from heuristics and biases," work that named many of the phenomena studied today. This grouping traces a phenomenon back to the person whose work first described it.
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Originating WorkGustav Fechner's Elemente der Psychophysik (1860) 1 Associated Psychologist
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Many of the classical techniques and theories of psychophysics were formulated in 1860 when Gustav Theodor Fechner in Leipzig published Elemente der Psychophysik (Elements of Psychophysics).
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