Frances Heussenstamm
{{Short description|American artist and psychologist (1928–2019)}}
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France Kovacs Heussenstamm (November 6, 1928 – March 6, 2019) was an American artist and psychologist. She was a professor of art and education at Columbia University, an associate professor at California State University, Los Angeles, and instructor at Sierra High School, Whittier, California. In sociology research, her experiment entitled, Bumper Stickers and the Cops, is widely referenced, as its findings continue to remain of controversy.
Life and education
Heussenstamm was born in Cleveland to Fred Kovacs and Edna Jacqueline Reiter. She has two siblings, a younger sister, Marcia Kovacs and her brother, Jerry Kovacs, an engineer. She earned her Bachelor's at Whittier College in 1957, followed by her Master of Arts at Whittier College in 1960. She achieved a Doctor of Philosophy, from University of Southern California in 1968.
Heussenstamm, and her husband, Karl Heussenstamm had three sons, Paul, Mark and John.{{Citation needed|date=May 2019}}
Later in life, she struggled with brain injury from a car accident.{{cite book |title=Blurts about brain injury |isbn=098889470X}} At the age of 78, she continued to educate and lecture aboard more than 30 international cruises.{{cite book |title=Cruising Granny |id={{ASIN|0988894718|country=es}}}} She also completed twenty two large canvas paintings series entitled, The Circle.{{cite web |title=The Circle |url=http://www.paintology.org/paint_cycle.htm |website=paintology.org}}
Career and contributions
Heussenstamm earned a PhD in sociology from University of Southern California at a time when this was a rarity for women. She was also a clinical psychologist and intensive journal instructor.{{cite web |title=Obituary |url=https://www.lagunabeachindy.com/obituaries-22/ |website=The Indy|date=March 29, 2019 }}
In 1969, Heussenstamm conducted an experiment, Bumper Stickers and the Cops.{{Cite journal|last=Heussenstamm|first=F. K.|date=February 1, 1971|title=Bumper stickers and the cops|journal=Trans-action|language=en|volume=8|issue=4|pages=32–33|doi=10.1007/BF02804118|s2cid=144363067|issn=1936-4725}} The experiment concluded that police officers give citations often with their own interests, as students with perfectly good driving records began receiving tickets because of newly placed Black Panther bumper stickers.{{cite web |title=Human Behavior Experiments Black Panthers and the Police |url=https://www.trivia-library.com/b/human-behavior-experiments-black-panthers-and-the-police.htm |website=trivia-library.com}}{{cite web |title=Module 1: Foundations of Sociology Search for: Reading: Experiments |url=https://courses.lumenlearning.com/alamo-sociology/chapter/experiments/ |website=Lumen Sociology}}
Books
- Heussenstamm, Frances (1993) Blame It on Freud: A Guide to the Language of Psychology{{cite journal|title=Review|journal=Social Work|last=Timberlake|first= Elizabeth M. |volume=40|number=5|date=September 1995}}
- Heussenstamm, Frances (2013) Blurts! Talk about Brain Injury
- Heussenstamm, Frances (2018) Cruising Granny
References
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External links
- http://www.paintology.org/bio.htm
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Category:American women sociologists
Category:American sociologists
Category:American women psychologists
Category:20th-century American psychologists
Category:Whittier College alumni
Category:University of Southern California alumni
Category:California State University, Los Angeles faculty
Category:Columbia University faculty