Yale University's Institute of Human Relations and the Spanish Civil War: Dollard and Miller's study of fear and courage under battle conditions.
Span J Psychol
; 12(2): 393-404, 2009 Nov.
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ABSTRACT
In the late 1930s, the Institute of Human Relations of Yale University developed a research program on conflict and anxiety as an outcome of Clark Hull's informal seminar on the integration of Freud's and Pavlov's theories. The program was launched at the 1937 Annual Meeting of the APA in a session chaired by Clark L. Hull, and the experiments continued through 1941, when the United States entered the Second World War. In an effort to apply the findings from animal experiments to the war situation, John Dollard and Neal E. Miller decided to study soldiers' fear reactions in combat. As a first step, they arranged interviews with a few veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. Taking these interviews as a point of departure, Dollard devised a questionnaire to which 300 former Lincoln brigaders responded. The present paper analyzes the main outcomes of the questionnaire, together with the war experiences reported in the interview transcripts. Our purpose was to evaluate a project which was initially investigated by the FBI because of the communists among the Lincoln ranks, but eventually supported by the American Army, and which exerted great influence on the military psychology of the time.
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Colección:
01-internacional
Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Psicología Militar
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Guerra
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Trastornos de Combate
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Academias e Institutos
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Miedo
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Motivación
Tipo de estudio:
Qualitative_research
Límite:
Humans
País/Región como asunto:
America do norte
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Europa
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Span J Psychol
Asunto de la revista:
PSICOLOGIA
Año:
2009
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
España