Are You of the Easy Chair on Either Side of the Fire and Sett in front of it Cult? Are Bristolians lacking in a sense of beauty? And have they as yet failed to realize the full amount of satisfaction they can get from their homes? The answer to all these questions, according to Dr. Marie Jahoda, eminent Viennese socio-psychologist, are in the affirmative. Before the German occupation of Austria, Dr. Jahoda was in charge of the Institute for Social and Economic Research in Vienna, at the head of 160 workers engaged in market research. She had been in England for over a year, and for the last five months has lived in Bristol and has been carrying out (under the auspices of Mrs. Crofton Gane) a scientific investigation concerning the type of furniture which people like to have in their houses and the reasons why they purchase it. Next week she is taking up the Pinsent – Darwin studentship at Cambridge University and will spend three years working on psychological and social problems. …
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