The Institute framed its F-scale research as a direct rival to Kurt Lewin’s psychology

Evidence

I am quite of your opinion, that precisely this research, as soon as it has been carried out on a larger scale in other places, must provide our counterstroke' against Lewin's stuff. But that is only possible if the idea of indirect measurement’ really comes out so convincingly and in such a well-substantiated way that it gains acceptance and is not, according to local custom, seen as `hypothesis formation’. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1581

Categorization

• XREF: Positions the Frankfurt School’s empirical turn against the Lewin field-theory tradition in American social psychology.