Marie Jahoda was an Austrian-British social psychologist. She is known in particular for the Marienthal study of the psychological effects of unemployment on an Austrian community during the Great Depression, work that helped establish empirical social psychology as a discipline concerned with the lived consequences of economic hardship.
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Notable WorkDie Arbeitslosen von Marienthal (1932) 1 Connections
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Source Wikipedia: Marie Jahoda
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Born (1907-01-26)26 January 1907 Vienna, Austria
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Died 28 April 2001(2001-04-28) (aged 94) Sussex, England
Biography
Die Arbeitslosen von Marienthal (1932; English ed. 1971
In Branch: Social Psychology, Categories
Wikipedia article 'Marie Jahoda' is filed under Category:British social psychologists.
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