Jahoda, Gustav

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JAHODA, Gustav

JAHODA, Gustav. British (born Austria), b. 1920. Genres: Anthropology/Ethnology, Psychology, Race relations. Career: University of Manchester, Manchester, England, lecturer in psychology, 1949-52; University College of Gold Coast (now University of Ghana), lecturer in psychology, 1952-56; University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, senior lecturer in social psychology, 1956-64; University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, professor of psychology, 1964-86, professor emeritus, 1986-. Publications: White Man: A Study of the Attitudes of Africans to Europeans in Ghana before Independence, 1961; The Psychology of Superstition, 1969, rev. ed., 1974; (with J. Cramond) Children and Alcohol: A Developmental Study in Glasgow, 1972; Psychology and Anthropology: A Psychological Perspective, 1982; (with I.M. Lewis) Acquiring Culture, 1989; Crossroads between Culture and Mind, 1993; Images of Savages, 1999. Address: Department of Psychology, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G1 1RD, Scotland. Online address: G.Jahoda@strath.ac.uk

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