Training and Early Career
After graduating in journalism and psychology from the Bedford College of the University of London in 1928, she worked as a Girl Friday for the Cambridge scholar Charles Kay Ogden. She briefly studied dance and painting in France but was persuaded to continue her education on a fellowship at Smith College, Massachusetts with the theorist Kurt Koffka, a founder of Gestalt theory. Working for Koffka, she obtained her Ph.D. in 1934 at a time when Smith had no Ph.D program.
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