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...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...
...copy of the celebrated script (with indicated sound effects); 2) enjoying a learned laugh over the things it made people do; 3) studying U. S. behavior when a panic is on, The Invasion from Mars,* provides a lively, sympathetic anatomizing of the Wells-Welles ruckus by Psychologist Hadley Cantril and a special staff of Princeton's Radio Research Project...
...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...
...Pendleton Herring, instructor in government, and Hadley Cantril, Jr., instructor in psychology here from 1932 to 1935 are associate editors of the new "Public Opinion Quarterly," the first issue of which appeared this week...