ABSTRACT
Max Wertheimer had extensive interactions with two of the more visible American psychologists of the 1930s, Edwin Garrigues Boring and Clark L. Hull. By the time that Wertheimer arrived in America, Boring had become established as one of the most influential American psychologists. On December 12, 1933, Boring wrote Wertheimer, inviting him to attend the April 1934 meeting of the Society. In an October 1936 letter to Wertheimer, Hull asserted that approximately one-half of Wertheimer's comments, especially suggestions about the "direction of clarification and emphasis," were incorporated into Hull's new draft. During 1936, Wertheimer also corresponded with a prominent Russian psychologist, Alexander Luria, who was trying to prepare a memorial volume for another illustrious Russian psychologist, Lev S. Vygotskii, who died in 1934. Luria must have known that he was engaging in politically dangerous activities in corresponding with Wertheimer.
