Aušra Augustinavičiūtė (April 4, 1927 – August 19, 2005) was a Lithuanian

economist An economist is a professional and practitioner in the social sciences, social science discipline of economics. The individual may also study, develop, and apply theories and concepts from economics and write about economic policy. Within this ...

, and dean of the Vilnius Pedagogical University's department of family science. Founder of

socionics Socionics, in psychology and sociology, is a pseudoscientific theory of information processing and personality types. It incorporates Carl Jung's work on '' Psychological Types'' with Antoni Kępiński's theory of information metabolism. Socioni ...

, the theory of information processing and

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s. Augustinavičiūtė was born not far from the city of

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, in

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. In 1956 she graduated from the economic faculty of

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as a financier. She worked at the Ministry of Finance of Lithuania and later as a teacher of

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and sociology in different educational institutions in

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. Her works on socionics, with the exception of few, were not published during the period of Soviet power, but became more and more popular during the 1990s. The current structure of her theory was standardized by Alexander Bukalov, Victor Gulenko, and Gregory Reinin after the founding of the International Institute of Socionics in

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, Ukraine. The

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recognized socionics as a discovery and awarded Augustinavičiūtė a diploma and the Pyotr Kapitsa medal in 1995 (not to be confused with the Kapitsa Gold Medal awarded by the

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1927 births 2005 deaths People from Kaunas County Lithuanian psychologists Socionics Vilnius University alumni {{Lithuania-academic-bio-stub