ABSTRACT
In Baku Tamara Dembo received private tuition–as a young girl she was diagnosed as having a heart condition and she was not allowed to go to school–and passed the finals at the second boys' gymnasium in 1920. Having finished her studies, Tamara Dembo began doing research at the University of Berlin under the supervision of Kurt Lewin. In accordance with the Galileian approach, Dembo decided to provoke anger in the laboratory. Dembo explained that it would have been ideal to film the experiments but that trials showed that this method was technically still too difficult and too expensive. According to Dembo, the experimental setting did not, however, provoke strong emotions. A large part of Dembo's dissertation consisted of giving a detailed description of what subjects do when the psychological tension is mounting in terms of the existing forces and barriers. Dembo describes how subjects display occasional expressions of annoyance, but how they still try to control themselves.
