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Gustav Jahoda
Born(1920-10-11)October 11, 1920
Vienna
DiedDecember 12, 2016(2016-12-12) (aged 96)
NationalityAustrian/ British
Alma materBirkbeck, University of London
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Manchester; University College of the Gold Coast; University of Strathclyde

Gustav Jahoda, FBA, FRSE (11 October 1920 – 12 December 2016) was an Austrian-born psychologist who made a sustained contribution to the development of cross-cultural psychology and cultural psychology.[1][2][3]

Biography and career

He was born in Vienna to a Jewish family. He initially attended school in Vienna but was expelled because of his Jewish background. He then spent a year attending school in Paris. His family moved there after the Anschluss. In Paris, he studied civil engineering. With the outbreak of war, he joined the French army but when the French front collapsed he escaped to England. He initially worked in various engineering projects for the British Army and then was involved in some more secret work for the British government.[4]

After he was invalided out of the army in 1942, Jahoda enrolled on a course on sociology and psychology at Birkbeck, University of London followed by an MSc and a PhD at the London School of Economics. He then obtained a lectureship in social psychology at the University of Manchester. In 1952 he took up a post at the University College of the Gold Coast (now Ghana) in the Department of Sociology, where he carried out pioneering research into cross-cultural psychology.[5] He then worked at the University of Glasgow for three years.

In 1963, Gustav Jahoda was invited to set up a new psychology department in the University of Strathclyde. He recruited Heinz Rudolph Schaffer to assist him with this task. Despite his administrative responsibilities he continued to make field trips to West Africa. He retired in 1985 and was appointed Emeritus Professor but he continued to publish on both cultural psychology and the history of psychology.[6][7]

Research

He published works on cross-cultural psychology, socio-cognitive development and history of the social sciences. He also published more than 200 articles. Jahoda was elected fellow of the British Academy in 1988 and fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1993.[8]

Publications

  • A History of Social Psychology: From the Eighteenth-Century Enlightenment to the Second World War (2007)[9]
  • Images of Savages: Ancient Roots of Modern Prejudice in Western Culture (1999)
  • Crossroads Between Culture and Mind: Continuities and Change in Theories of Human Nature (1993)
  • Psychology and Anthropology: A Psychological Perspective (1982)
  • The Psychology of Superstition (1970)
  • White Man: A Study of the Attitudes of Africans to Europeans in Ghana before Independence (1961)

References

  1. ^ Handbook of Cross-Cultural Psychology: Theory and Method by John Widdup Berry, Ype H. Poortinga and Janak Pandey
  2. ^ "Gustav Jahoda, Early Founder of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Dead at 96". International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology. 15 December 2016. Retrieved 11 April 2017.
  3. ^ "Gustav Jahoda". HeraldScotland. 15 December 2016. Retrieved 11 April 2017.
  4. ^ Markova, Ivana; Jahoda, Andrew. "Gustav Jahoda" (PDF). British Academy. Retrieved 1 May 2023.
  5. ^ Biography for Gustav Jahoda
  6. ^ Jahoda, Gustav. Always something new out of Africa. In Bond, M H: Working at the Interface of Cultures: Eighteen Lives in Social Science. Routeledge, 1997, pp. 27-37.
  7. ^ Jahoda, Gustav, 'Crossing cultures', in Bunn, G C et al. Psychology in Britain: Historical Essays and Personal Reflections. British Psychological Society, 2001, pp. 402-410.
  8. ^ Jahoda, Andrew; Markova, Ivana (2017). "Gustav Jahoda FRSE, FBA (1920–2016)". The Psychologist. 30 (April): 9. Retrieved 10 March 2017.
  9. ^ Sica, Alan (June 2009). "Review Essay of A History of Social Psychology: From the Eighteenth-Century Enlightenment to the Second World War by Gustav Jahoda". Social Psychology Quarterly. 72 (2): 99–104. doi:10.1177/019027250907200202. JSTOR 25593912. S2CID 143937930.
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