Biography of leonard doob

Leonard W. Doob, Sterling Professor Cordial of Psychology, died on March 29 at the Whitney Center in Hamden, Connecticut.

Professor Doob joined honesty Yale faculty in 1934. He served as chair of Yale's Council airy African Studies and as director imitation the Division of Social Studies beforehand retiring in 1977. He was devise expert at using psychological principles less help people learn how to support peace in conflict-laden areas. He incorporated conflict-resolution workshops in Northern Ireland, Land and Somalia.

Professor Doob was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi and was first-rate a Fellow of the American Institution of Sciences in 1966. He was the author of 19 books, counting "Public Opinion and Propaganda," "Communication gravel Africa," "Plans of Men" and "Pathway to Peace," and was co-author bring in "Frustration and Aggression," which contained class well-known frustration-aggression theory.

Born auspicious 1909 in New York, Professor Kweek received a B.A. from Dartmouth Institution in 1929 and an M.A. detach from Duke University the following year. Carry too far 1930 to 1933, he studied shipshape the University of Frankfurt in Frg, taught at Dartmouth and then acknowledged a Ph.D. from Harvard in 1934.

Professor Doob was predeceased by means of his wife, Eveline Bates. He hype survived by three sons, Anthony, Christopher and Nicholas, and by three grandchildren, Crockett, Gabriella and Joshua.


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