Hilde Himmelweit

Hildegard Therese Himmelweit (born Lithuanians ) ( * 1918, † 1989) was a British social psychologist of German origin.

Himmelweit emigrated in 1935 to the UK and was founded in 1945 by Hans Eysenck to the Ph.D. doctorate. From 1948 to 1983 she taught at the London School of Economics and Political Science. In 1964, she was just there first professor of social psychology in the UK.

She became internationally known through their studies of the effect of television on social awareness. They also examined in the context of political psychology decision making processes before elections.