Career
Asch began his teaching career at Brooklyn College. In 1947, he moved to Swarthmore College, where he stayed for 19 years (1947-1966). Swarthmore was the major home of Gestalt psychology at that time in America. Wolfgang Kohler, Prentice, and Wallach were faculty members at that time as well. In 1966, he left to found the Institute for Cognitive Studies at Rutgers University (1966-1972). In 1972, Asch moved to the University of Pennsylvania and stayed there as a professor of psychology until he retired 1979 and was Emeritus until 1996. Asch also had visiting posts at Harvard and MIT.
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