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THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
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FrHay, October 24, 1952
Psychologists Attack Anti-Semitism
By GRACE JAN WALDMAN
P»ychok>giHts are picking into
the anti-Semitic mind to extract
the infection of prejudice. Their
research studies are seeking it
out in schools, hospitals and
homes throughout the country,
homes throughout the country.
Reports on progress were made
at the doth annual American
Psychological Convention, where
delegates discussed studies on
discrimination, prejudice and au
thoritarian attitudes.
I)r. Marie Jahoda, a psycholo
gist who worked with the Amer
ican Jewish Committee on a sur
vey of emotional disorders and
anti-Semitism, won the Associa
tions' Civil Liberties Award for
her research plan to study the
relationship between loyalty
measures and the “increasing
tendency towards suspicion of
minority groups.”
Reasons for prejudice were ex
plained by Donald T. Campbell of
the University of Chicago. He
said that a person may be prej
udiced because he is rootless,
homeless, or ailenated from the
group. The dogmatic type of
prejudice, Campbell explained, is
marked by over-identification
with a cause. Thus, an extreme
attitude toward loyally o<iths
may be a way of showing over-
protection or over-devotion to
ward America.
Dr. Kenneth Clark declared,
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“McCarthy and McCarran are di
rect descendents of the know-
nothings and the Ku-Kluxers.”
Dr. Isador Chein presented fac
tual evidence that the effects of
ethnic and racial regregation
were harmful. And Dr. Wayne
Dennis forcefully added, “I don’t
have to prove scientifically that
segregation is harmful. I’m op
posed to it because I know it is a
social injustice.”
The topic of prejudice was em
phasized by the Association.
Gunner Myrdal was honored for
his work in race relations and
“inter-group resentment.” Dr.
Bernard Corman said that high
school students should be made
aware that good citizenship is
identical with those who “work
for the improvement in relations
between races and" religious
groups.”
At the climax of the conven
tion, the psychologists were fac
ed with a situation which
brought forth action in accor
dance with their scientific theo
ries. The Association was shock
ed to find Negro members of the
group discriminated against in
Washington. President J. McV.
Ilurvt of the Association declar
ed, “we have studied the damag
ing effect of race and minority
prejudice in every major field of
American life,” when the group
announced that it would not
meet here again until “more pro
gress has been made towards
democratic treatment of minori
ties.” An article in the Washing
ton Daily News reported that a
hotel manager attacked the As
sociation for its stand on this
controversial issue.
Recent books explaining and
condemning anti-Semitism, rang
ing from best-sellers to text
books, were exhibited at the con
vention. Among the authors rep
resented was Ashley Montague.
It was Montague who explained
last summer at a UNESCO con
ference, contrary to the appar
ent theories of .the State Depart
ment Visa Division, that Jews
are not a race. A series of five
volumes on prejudice was exhib
ited by Harper and Brothers.
Among them were "The Authori
tarian Personality,” a volume of
the combined efforts of five psy
chologists which probes the prej
udiced mind and analyzes the
causes of anti-Semitism; and
Pnul Massing’s “Rehearsal for
Destruction," a study of anti-
Semitism in imperial Germany.
Massings book shows how “the
conflict of political and social
pressures nurtured anti-Semi
tism which had such drastic con
sequences under the Nazis.’’
The American Psychological
Association has factually and un
emotionally applied electric shock
therapy to anti-Semitism. By
widespread dissemination of
their intensive studies, it hopes
that terrorism, persecution, and
genocide will someday be univer
sally regarded as manifestations
of sick minds.
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