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Jahoda, Marie
© Copyright Marie Jahoda. Photo, 1980. Jahoda, Marie, b. Vienna, Jan. 26, 1907, d. Sussex (United Kingdom), Apr. 29, 2001, social psychologist. 1933-1936 worked at the Vienna Research Institute for Economic Psychology; 1937 had to flee Austria for political reasons and emigrated to the United Kingdom, 1958-1973 professor of social psychology at the university of Sussex. Noted for her study "Die Arbeitslosen vom Mariental" (1933), which was published in co-operation with her husband Paul F. Lazarsfeld and H. Zeisel. Her method of research is characterised by stringent ethical principles. Further works: Research Methods in Social Relations, 1951 (with M. Deutsch and S. W. Cook); Studies in the Scope and Method of "The Authoritarian Personality", 1954 (with R. Christie); Sozialpsychologie der Politik und Kultur. Ausgew. Schriften, 1995; "Ich habe die Welt nicht verändert", 1997.
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