10 Facts About Marie Jahoda

Marie Jahoda was an Austrian-British social psychologist.

Marie Jahoda is considered as Grande Dame of European socialism.

In 1934, Marie Jahoda divorced Lazarsfeld since he had started a relationship with Herta Herzog in 1932.

Marie Jahoda went to England staying there during World War II.

Marie Jahoda contributed significantly to the analysis of the Studies on Prejudice and was co-editor of the third volume of these studies called Anti-Semitism and Emotional Disorder: a Psychological Interpretation, which was published in 1950.

Marie Jahoda founded the Research Center of Human Relations, and was recruited by the University of Sussex in 1965, where she became Professor of Social Psychology.

Marie Jahoda maintained that the unemployed were deprived of all five, and that this accounted for much of the reported mental ill-health among unemployed people.

Marie Jahoda continued her interest in psychology with the 1977 study Freud and the Dilemmas of Psychology, and was coeditor of Technology and the Future of Europe: Competition and the Global Environment in the 1990s with Christopher Freeman, Keith Pavitt, Margaret Sharp and William Walker.

Marie Jahoda was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992.

Marie Jahoda died on 28 April 2001 in Sussex, England, aged 94.