France Kovacs Heussenstamm (November 6, 1928 – March 6, 2019) was an American artist and psychologist.

In sociology research, her experiment entitled, Bumper Stickers and the Cops, is widely referenced, as its findings continue to remain of controversy.

Heussenstamm was born in Cleveland to Fred Kovacs and Edna Jacqueline Reiter.

[3] Heussenstamm earned a PhD in sociology from University of Southern California at a time when this was a rarity for women.

[5] 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.