Hadley Cantril

The Psychology of Ego-Involvements, Social Attitudes and Identifications

The first book-length treatment of an important new statistical technique. .Called the Sequential Probability Ratio Test, this new method of statistical analysis has many proven advantages over other procedures for testing a statistical hypothesis. This valuable new technique of statistical inference was developed by the author and was used extensively during the war in development work on military and naval equipment. A comprehensive two-volume discussion of fungi, with the emphasis throughout both books on the activities of fungi. Volume I comprises a treatment of developmental morphology and taxonomy of fungi-the basic material for a comprehensive study of the subject. Volume RI deals more specifically with the activities of fungi and focuses attention on the reactions of a fungus. Ready in May and June. A significant and penetrating new textbook which gives the broad outline of the psychology of socialization. Professors Sherif and Cantril have correlated previously disconnected observations and facts from the experimental laboratory, from sociology and ethnology, from controlled studies of social life, and from everyday life situations. They have formulated certain conclusions from these facts concerning the problems of ego formation and social identifications. Ready in May. A modern, authoritative discussion of natural fibers, regenerated natural fibers, and synthesized fibers-prepared by well-known specialists under the editorship of Herbert R. Mauersberger. As in previous editions, each fiber is dealt with separately. A complete, up-to-date bibliography at the end of each chapter, informative illustrations, graphs, charts, diagrams, and tables add much to the books value. Published in April. 1133 pages. 6 by 9g.

AMERICA FACES THE WAR: A STUDY IN PUBLIC OPINION

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CAUSES AND CONTROL OF RIOT AND PANIC

The author, social psychologist at Princeton University, is Director of the Princeton Public Opinion Research Project. Since the outbrcak of war, the Project, under a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, has been charting the course of American opinion through the polling mechanism of the American Institute of Public Opinion. In this article, Dr. Cantril presents a cross-section picture of American opinion in connection with the war as of the end of July, traces opinion trends since the spring of 1939, describes the patterns of opinion which have been discovered and the characteristics of people holding these opinions, and offers some interpretations of public opinion as recorded to date.

America Faces the War: Shifts in Opinion

EUROPE has, for five years, been living under tremendous strain. Frustration and insecurity have been widespread. Before occupation there is still to come the terrific impact of invasion with all its dislocations. Conditions will be ripe for panic. In the pages which follow, the author discusses the bases and prevention of riot and panic. In connection with this subject, Dr. Cantril will be best remembered as the author of Invasion from Mars, a brilliant analysis of the panic touched off by the famous Orson Welles broadcast of the same name. A well-known social psychologist, he is Director of Princeton Universitys Office of Public Opinion Research.

The nature of faith

By early October, the course of the war in Europe and the Tokyo-Rome-Berlin Pact had swung American opinion sharply toward greater aid to Britain and a firmer stand against Japan in the Far East. These and other trends of American opinion in connection with the war, from mid-summer to October 15, are described in this second report of the Princeton Public Opinion Research Project, the first of which appeared in the September issue of the QUARTERLY. The Project is financed by the Rockefeller Foundation and gathers its data through the facilities of the Gallup poll.

They saw a game: a case study.

SummaryThis paper examines the psychological conditions that bring the experience of faith into being, and the psychological components the word “faith” refers to and except for which faith would not be experienced. The problem of maintaining faith without recourse to supernaturalism is discussed in terms of mans social relations and value satisfactions.