> Solomon E. Asch was born in Warsaw, Poland, on September 14, 1907; he died at the age of 88 on February 20, 1996. Asch came to the United States in 1920, and received a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1932. His principal mentor was Max Wertheimer, and, throughout his life, he explored gestalt, relation-oriented approaches to perception, association, learning, thinking, and metaphor. His ... [MORE]