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Beginning next week, the CRIMSON will carry a series of articles analyzing rumors and propaganda which have been rife around the University during the past few weeks. The articles will be written by Robert H. Knapp 2G., teaching fellow in the Department of Psychology and Director of the Division of Propaganda Research of the Massachusetts Committee on Public Safety...
...determine the effect of rumor and find out of what extent students in the University accept the official reports of the war, an experiment was conducted within the College by Robert K. Knapp, teaching fellow in Psychology, who gave a carefully constructed "propaganda" test to a number of students...
...that we are in the war and have suffered defeats, the rumors are more of the 'wedge-driving' type," Knapp revealed. "I mean by this," he explained, "that they try to create dissension among people by attacking the Jews, the Negroes, or some other minority group. They appeal to people who are anti-British, or anti-adminstration, in an effort to break the unity of the country...
Probably only a small percentage of them are inspired by the Axis, Knapp said. The majority of them rise from the frustration of a people who are determined to fight a war with all possible effectiveness, but have not the material, at the present time, to take as active a part as they would like...
This type of rumor arises from the same sort of frustration as happens when a man, bawled out by his boss, goes home and basis out his wife for no reason at all, Knapp explained...