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I was born in New York in 1920 and was educated in public schools from kindergarten to City College, where I received my BS in 1941. In June 1942 I received my master’s degree in social psychology from Columbia University; that fall I was married to Etta Weissman.
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Proshansky, H.M. (1990). The Pursuit of Understanding. In: Altman, I., Christensen, K. (eds) Environment and Behavior Studies. Human Behavior and Environment, vol 11. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-7944-7_2
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