Word: cantril
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Marshal Field, backer of the New York tabloid PM, put up the money. The Center's board of directors includes two social psychologists, Princeton's Professor Hadley Cantril and Harvard's Professor Gordon W. Allport, and University of Denver's Chancellor Caleb F. Gates Jr., onetime star Princeton tackle and track man. For active operators the academicians will lean on two experienced pollsters, British-born Harry H. Field (no kin to Marshall Field), who worked six years for George Gallup and organized the British Institute of Public Opinion, and F. Douglas Williams, who worked for Elmo...
...Princeton project (directed by Drs. Paul F. Lazarsfeld, Frank Stanton and Hadley Cantril) had been studying radio on Rockefeller money for about a year when the Halloween panic popped practically in Nassau Hall. With a special grant of $3,000 from the Rockefeller General Education Board, Dr. Cantril and associates went after known survivors of the Sunday nightmare with a questionnaire many times as nosy as a census blank. In addition to straightforward questions about the incident, the project's interviewers asked people about Mars, rocketships, religion, superstitions, job security, education, year and make of car, the Czech crisis...
...talk of invasion, gas, fire, and many deaths. Believing that everybody was done in down Princeton way, he headed back to rescue his girl, covered 45 miles in 35 minutes, passed through Newburgh, N. Y. (pop. 31,000) without noticing it. Analyzing this young man's questionnaire, Psychologist Cantril deduced him to be well-to-do, conventional, "particularly susceptible to prestige suggestion." The reputation of Columbia Broadcasting System, the broadcast references to the Princeton professor and the pessimistic Secretary of the Interior greatly impressed him. His reaction to the catastrophe seemed to be partly based upon his greatest fear...
...quality that might have tipped everyone off to what was really going on, according to Dr. Cantril, was pure, uninfluenced "critical ability." Some child listeners possessed and used this. They recognized Orson Welles's voice as that of The Shadow of a year prior. Compared to The Shadow's well-remembered activities, the War of the Worlds was tame stuff. On the whole, college-bred listeners who first thought the program was a news broadcast were twice as successful as grade-school graduates in detecting that what they heard was fiction. But generally, Dr. Cantril's researchers...
...persons upon whose critical ability Dr. Cantril does not comment were the two hard-rock Princeton geologists who heard that something had fallen near by, promptly set out, hammers in hand, to have a scientific...