ABSTRACT
Fritz Heider was a wanderer, someone who liked to survey and take the measure of whatever he encountered. In his formative years, he was a wanderer in the geographical sense-hiking in his beloved Austrian mountains and traveling through much of Europe. In his professional years, he was a wanderer in the intellectual sense-taking daily walks for the purpose of analyzing a difficult concept or conducting a thought experiment. Because he was rarely in a hurry and took the time to look more closely and to deliberate more thoroughly than most of his peers, Heider was able to achieve profound insights about essential aspects of human behavior and experience.
