Education

Graduated in philosophy and psychology from the Faculty of Arts of Budapest University (1959).

Obtained Candidate degree from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences with a thesis on a specifically human basic need (1968).

Obtained Doctor of Science degree from the Hungarian Academy of Science with a thesis on social identity and paradoxes of its psychic elaboration (1988)

Career

László Garai was a member of the Advisory board of the Hungarian Ministry of Finance.

He is on the editiorial board of the Journal of Russian and East European Psychology.

Works

• article

  • Szabadságszükséglet és esztétikum
  • Alkotáspszichológia felé: Esettanulmány József Attiláró
  • József Attila identitásai: alkotáspszichológiai esettanulmány

• publication

  • Problèmes des besoins spécifiquement humains. Récherches Internationales: Psychologie

  • Las necesidades específicamente humanas In: A. Luria, A. Massucco Costa, R. Zazzo and B. Teplov: Problemática científica de la psicología actual

  • Személyiségdinamika és társadalmi lét (Personality dynamics and social existence)

  • Determining economic activity in a post-capitalist system

• report

  • La régulation communicative de la relation sociale et le devenir conscient des contenus de mémoire

Connections

The activity theory of Alexei Leontiev was the base of his hypothesi while working on a paradoxical need for a needfree activitys:

Alexei Nikolaevich Leont'ev

A Soviet developmental psychologist, and the founder of activity theory.