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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Gustav Jahoda, FBA, FRSE was an Austrian-born psychologist who made a sustained contribution to the development of cross-cultural psychology and cultural psychology. Biography and career He was born in Vienna to a Jewish family. Leopold Jahoda, a lawyer, was his father and Olga his mother. 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.
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- On the Scope and Methods of Cross-Cultural Research (1966) (223)
- Critical reflections on some recent definitions of “culture” (2012) (207)
- Images of Savages (1998) (190)
- Critical notes and reflections on ‘social representations’ (1988) (151)
- The psychology of superstition (1969) (136)
- THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN'S IDEAS ABOUT COUNTRY AND NATIONALITY (1963) (125)
- Theodor Lipps and the shift from "sympathy" to "empathy". (2005) (124)
- The construction of economic reality by some Glaswegian children (1979) (116)
- Psychology and Anthropology: A Psychological Perspective (1983) (103)
- On the nature of difficulties in spatial-perceptual tasks: ethnic and sex differences. (1979) (103)
- CHILDREN'S CONCEPTS OF NATIONALITY: A CRITICAL STUDY OF PIAGET'S STAGES. (1964) (94)
- European Association of Experimental Social Psychology (1967) (89)
- Crossroads between Culture and Mind: Continuities and Change in Theories of Human Nature (1992) (87)
- Do We Need a Concept of Culture? (1984) (86)
- Geometric illusions and environment: a study in Ghana. (1966) (86)
- Acquiring Culture: Cross-cultural Studies in Child Development (1988) (82)
- Supernatural Beliefs and Changing Cognitive Structures among Ghanaian University Students (1970) (81)
- Development of Scottish Children's Ideas and Attitudes about Other Countries (1962) (76)
- Pictorial depth perception: a developmental study. (1974) (75)
- European ‘lag’ in the development of an economic concept: A study in Zimbabwe (1983) (70)
- Dreams and Deeds: Achievement Motivation in Nigeria (1968) (70)
- Assessment of abstract behavior in a non-Western culture. (1956) (69)
- Pictorial Depth Perception in Scottish and Ghanaian Children, A Critique of Some Findings with the Hudson Test (1974) (68)
- Development of pictorial depth perception: cross-cultural replications. (1974) (64)
- CHILDREN'S CONCEPTS OF TIME AND HISTORY (1963) (60)
- Retinal Pigmentation, Illusion Susceptibility and Space Perception (1971) (57)
- Susceptibility to geometrical illusions according to culture and professional training (1970) (56)
- Children and alcohol--a developmental study in Glasgow. (1973) (51)
- THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN'S IDEAS ABOUT COUNTRY AND NATIONALITY: Part II: National Symbols and Themes (1963) (50)
- Traditional Healers and Other Institutions Concerned With Mental Illness in Ghana (1961) (49)
- DEVELOPMENT OF THE PERCEPTION OF SOCIAL DIFFERENCES IN CHILDREN FROM 6 TO 10 (1959) (48)
- Efficacy of objects, pictures and words in a simple learning task (1975) (46)
- Pictorial Depth Perception by Children in Scotland and Ghana (1975) (45)
- Reproduction of Kohs-type figures by Ghanaian children: orientation errors revisited. (1976) (42)
- Parents' alcohol consumption and children's knowledge of drinks and usage patterns. (1980) (41)
- Scientific Training and the Persistence of Traditional Beliefs among West African University Students (1968) (41)
- Cross-cultural study of factors influencing orientation errors in the reproduction of Kohs-type figures. (1978) (40)
- The Devaluation by Children of their Own National and Ethnic Group: Two Case Studies (1972) (40)
- Cognitive Aspects of Religious Symbolism. (1994) (40)
- Ethnic identity and preferences among Asian immigrant children in Glasgow: A replicated study (1972) (38)
- Political attitudes and judgments of other people. (1954) (36)
- THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN'S PREFERENCE FOR THEIR OWN COUNTRY (1970) (35)
- A Cross-Cultural Perspective on Developmental Psychology (1986) (34)
- Sex and ethnic differences on a spatial-perceptual task: some hypotheses tested. (1980) (34)
- Pictorial Recognition as an Unlearned Ability (1977) (34)
- A history of social psychology: From the eighteenth-century Enlightenment to the Second World War. (2007) (34)
- Retinal pigmentation and space perception: a failure to replicate. (1975) (32)
- On the rise and decline of ‘indigenous psychology’ (2016) (32)
- A note on Ashanti names and their relationship to personality. (1954) (31)
- AN OBSERVATIONAL STUDY OF YOUNG ADULTS' DRINKING GROUPS — I. DRINK PREFERENCES, DEMOGRAPHIC AND STRUCTURAL VARIABLES AS PREDICTORS OF ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION (1983) (29)
- The development of ideas about an economic institution: A cross-national replication (1982) (28)
- Child Animism: I. A Critical Survey of Cross-Cultural Research (1958) (25)
- Seventy Years of Social Psychology: A Cultural and Personal Critique (2016) (25)
- Belfast Children: Some Effects of a Conflict Environment (1975) (24)
- The Ancestry of a Model (1995) (24)
- A Cross-Cultural Perspective on Experimental Social Psychology (1979) (23)
- Staff—child interaction styles in multi-ethnic nursery schools (1992) (23)
- The development of pictorial depth perception: the role of figural elevation. (1974) (21)
- TOPOLOGICAL AND EUCLIDEAN SPATIAL FEATURES NOTED BY CHILDREN (1974) (20)
- Children's representations of economic inequality: A replication (1989) (20)
- Patterns of visual-spatial performance and 'spatial ability': dissociation of ethnic and sex differences. (1988) (20)
- Utilization of pictorial information in classroom learning: A cross cultural study (1976) (19)
- Child Animism: II. A Study in West Africa (1958) (19)
- Intra‐European Racism in Nineteenth‐Century Anthropology (2009) (18)
- Immanent justice among West African children. (1958) (18)
- Editorial Dialogue on Identifying Culture (2004) (17)
- The Social Background of a West African Student Population: II (1954) (17)
- The ghosts in the meme machine (2002) (17)
- White Man: A Study of the Attitudes of Africans to Europeans in Ghana Before Independence (1983) (16)
- Nature, culture and social psychology (1986) (16)
- White Man: A Study of the Attitudes of Africans to Europeans in Ghana before Independence. (1961) (16)
- Some Research Problems in African Education (1968) (16)
- Piaget and Levy-Bruhl. (2000) (16)
- Sex differences in preferences for shapes: a cross-cultural replication. (1956) (15)
- Social class attitudes and levels of occupational aspiration in secondary modern school leavers. (1953) (15)
- Love, Marriage, and Social Change: Letters to the Advice Column of a West African Newspaper (1959) (14)
- The Colour of a Chameleon: Perspectives on Concepts of Culture (1993) (14)
- Nationality Preferences and National Stereotypes in Ghana before Independence (1959) (13)
- Quetelet and the emergence of the behavioral sciences (2015) (12)
- Fundamental Questions in Cross-Cultural Psychology: Past and present of cross-cultural psychology (2011) (11)
- Aspects of Westernization: A Study of Adult-Class Students in Ghana: II (1961) (11)
- Critical Comments on Experimental, Discursive, and General Social Psychology (2013) (10)
- Between Culture and Biology: Culture, biology and development across history (2002) (10)
- Johann Friedrich Herbart: Urvater of social psychology (2006) (10)
- Staff attitudes and perceptions in multicultural nursery schools (1990) (10)
- An Anthropological History of Dehumanization From Late-18th to Mid-20th Centuries (2013) (10)
- Psychologie et culture: vers une solution du “Babel”? (1993) (9)
- Sex differences in retention of verbal and spatial characteristics of stimuli: a cross-cultural replication. (1981) (8)
- Some Historical and Cultural Aspects of Suggestion (1989) (6)
- Drawing Styles of Schooled and Unschooled Adults: A Study in Ghana (1981) (6)
- General Theory in Social Psychology (1976) (6)
- Theodor Waitz on Psychic Unity (2014) (6)
- On relations between ethnology and psychology in historical context (2014) (5)
- THE INFLUENCE OF SCHOOLING ON ADULT RECALL OF FAMILIAR STIMULI: A STUDY IN GHANA* (1981) (5)
- SOCIAL CLASS DIFFERENTIALS IN VOCABULARY EXPANSION (1964) (5)
- Refractive Errors, Intelligence and Social Mobility (1962) (5)
- Understanding the Mechanism of Bicycles: A Cross-Cultural Study of Developmental Change: After 13 Years (1969) (5)
- The context of social psychology: A critical assessment, edited by Joachim Israel and Henri Tajfel (1974) (5)
- On the origins of antagonism towards The Others (2002) (4)
- Reflections of a “Pre-Nominal” Cross-Cultural Psychologist (2002) (4)
- Impressions of nationalities--an alternative to the "stereotype" approach. (1966) (4)
- Cross-cultural use of the perceptual maze test. (1969) (4)
- Awareness of Ethnic Differences in Young Children: Proposals for a British Study (1966) (4)
- Acquiring Culture (Psychology Revivals) : Cross Cultural Studies in Child Development (2015) (3)
- A reply to Susan Blackmore (2002) (3)
- Ordinary Germans before Hitler: A Critique of the Goldhagen Thesis (1998) (3)
- Culture and Psychology: Words and Ideas in History (2012) (3)
- Emotional sensitivity and intelligence in children from orphanages and normal homes. (1971) (3)
- The Climate for and Status of Cross-Cultural Psychology in the 1960s (2009) (3)
- PSYCHOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY: POSSIBLE COMMON GROUND IN CROSS‐CULTURAL RESEARCH (1977) (3)
- A History of Social Psychology (2007) (3)
- Kuschel Rolf (1988).Vengeance is their reply: Blood feuds and homicides on Bellona Island. (2 vols).Copenhagen:Dansk Psykologisk Forlag. (2000) (2)
- Anthropologist and “Native” in Early Twentieth Century New Guinea: Malinowski and Thurnwald (2007) (2)
- Social Structure and Personality. A Casebook (1963) (1)
- Erich Franke on culture and cognitive development: a forgotten pioneer (1997) (1)
- NYBORG'S ANALYTICAL ROD‐AND‐FRAME SCORING SYSTEM: A COMPARATIVE STUDY IN ZIMBABWE* (1986) (1)
- Reflections on Two of Our Early Ancestors (2009) (1)
- Language games, or As you like it: A reply to Gergen (1986) (1)
- Awareness of Supra‐National Groupings Among Dutch and Scottish Children and Adolescents* (1982) (1)
- Comments on the discourse — analytic critique of ‘normal’ social psychology: Talking to a wall? (1998) (1)
- On the rationale for cross-cultural research (1989) (1)
- Literate West Africans and their traditional beliefs: Report on an attitude study (1961) (1)
- Two Worlds of Childhood: U.S.A. and U.S.S.R (1973) (1)
- The metaphysical mechanics of the mind Johann Friedrich Herbart (2009) (1)
- The savage Americans (2018) (0)
- Book Reviews : Wickert, F. R. (Ed.), Readings in African Psychology. From French Language Sources. African Studies Center, Michigan State University, 1967, pp. 381, $ 3.00 (1970) (0)
- Zum Ursprung der Serial-Reproduction-Methode (2009) (0)
- Mill versus Durkheim on the Methods of the Social Sciences (2017) (0)
- The hidden roots of critical psychology. Michael Billig (2008). London: Sage; 232 pp. ISBN 9781412947244 (Pbk), 237 pp. (2010) (0)
- Culture Conflict and Education: Some Comments in the Light of Psychological Research (1976) (0)
- A Welcome from the President of IACCP (1973) (0)
- Book Review: Humour and Laughter: Theory, Research and Applications (1977) (0)
- Book Reviews : West African Urbanisation: A Study of Voluntary Associations in Social Change. By KENNETH LITTLE (London, Cambridge University Press, 1965). 179 pp. 35s (1966) (0)
- Book Reviews (1994) (0)
- Social Psychology (1952) (0)
- Book reviews (1986) (0)
- Book Reviews (1992) (0)
- Book Review (1984) (0)
- Book reviews. (1966) (0)
- An Analaysis of the New Africa The New Societies of Tropical Africa. By Guy Hunter. London: Oxford University Press for the Institute of Race Relations, 1962. Pp. xx+376. 42s. (1963) (0)
- Search for Security . By M. J. Field. London: Faber, 1960. Pp. 478. 42 s . (1961) (0)
- Whither Cross-Cultural Psychology? (2006) (0)
- Social-psychological reflections on religious changes in Ghana (1971) (0)
- Immanent justice among gold coast children (1959) (0)
- David Duncan on Henri Tajfel – a Correction (2007) (0)
- Management International Journal of Cross Cultural Editorial: Dialogue on Identifying Culture (2004) (0)
- Book Reviews (1979) (0)
- Book Reviews (2002) (0)
- Race, Culture and Personality: The Hoernlé Memorial Lecture 1959 . By Simon Biesheuvel. Johannesburg: South African Institute of Race Relations, 1959. Pp. 37. 3 s . 6 d . (1960) (0)
- Beyond Stereotypes (2001) (0)
- Book Reviews (1980) (0)
- Quantitative Cross-Cultural Research: An Innovative Text (2012) (0)
- Review of identité sociale et conscience: Introduction á l'ego-écologie : by Marisa Zavalloni and Christiane Louis-Guérin. Montréal: Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal and Toulouse: Privat, 1984 (1987) (0)
- Cognitive dissonance or paradox: A response to Garai☆ (1988) (0)
- Editorial (2004) (0)
- Book Reviews : Transcultural Psychiatry: A Ciba Foundation Symposium. Edited by A. V. S. DE REUCK and RUTH PORTER (London, J. & A. Churchill, 1966). 395 pp. 60s (1967) (0)
- Wickert, F. R. (Ed.), Readings in African Psychology. From French Language Sources. African Studies Center, Michigan State University, 1967, pp. 381, $ 3.00. (1970) (0)
- The 'Negro' and the ape (2018) (0)
- Dreams and Deeds: Achievement Motivation in Nigeria. By Robert A. LeVine et al. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1966. Pp. 123. 29s. (1967) (0)
- Social Aspirations, Magic and Witchcraft in Ghana: A Social Psychological Interpretation (2018) (0)
- Heads I win, tails you lose: from 'recapitulation' to 'neoteny' (2018) (0)
- On Richard Thurnwald’s Ethno-Psychology (2008) (0)
- PIAGET AND LI VY-BRUHL (2000) (0)
- Book reviews (1966) (0)
- Book Review (2008) (0)
- Book Review (1995) (0)
- The Ghanaian's Image of the Missionary. By Harris W. Mobley. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1970. Pp. xi+180, bibl. No price. (1971) (0)
- The relativity of images (2018) (0)
- The anthropology of time (2011) (0)
- Book Reviews : BECOMING MORE CIVILISED : A PSYCHOLOGICAL EXPLORATION By LEONARD W. DOOB London, Oxford University Press, 1961 for New Haven, Yale University Press, 1960. 267 pp. 48s (1961) (0)
- Theodor Waitz on Psychic Unity (2013) (0)
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