Per Saugstad
Per Saugstad (24 October 1920 – 7 November 2010) was a Norwegian psychologist. He was Professor of Psychology at the University of Oslo, and is noted for his work on visual perception, thinking, language, and the history of psychology. Career He was born in Oslo. After getting a cand.philol. degree from the University of Oslo in 1945, he went to the United States, receiving a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Chicago in 1952. Back in Norway, he joined the Department of Psychology at the University of Oslo, rising to docent in 1962 and full professor in 1967. He retired in 1990. In Chicago Saugstad had become interested in experimental psychology, and his American approach to psychology was initially met with some resistance in Oslo, where the psychology department was still dominated by psychoanalysis in the 1950s. Saugstad has done important research in several areas, such as visual perception, thinking, and language. Among his books are ''An inquiry into the foundati ...
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Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of Norway. Bouvet Island, located in the Subantarctic, is a dependency of Norway; it also lays claims to the Antarctic territories of Peter I Island and Queen Maud Land. The capital and largest city in Norway is Oslo. Norway has a total area of and had a population of 5,425,270 in January 2022. The country shares a long eastern border with Sweden at a length of . It is bordered by Finland and Russia to the northeast and the Skagerrak strait to the south, on the other side of which are Denmark and the United Kingdom. Norway has an extensive coastline, facing the North Atlantic Ocean and the Barents Sea. The maritime influence dominates Norway's climate, with mild lowland temperatures on the se ...
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