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Dr. Robert A. Harper (Psychology Faculty 1943-1945) |
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Dr. Harper taught psychology and sociology at Wagner from 1943 to 1945. Harper was interested in conformity in social behavior as indicated in his 1942 dissertation "An exploratory questionnaire study of conforming and nonconforming behavior" which he completed at Ohio State University. His work was truly interdisciplinary drawing from the work of Floyd Allport, considered by some to be the founder of modern social psychology, and Walter Reckless, the sociologist who supervised Harper's dissertation.
Before coming to Wagner, Harper taught at Ohio State and Kent State Universities and was an Area Analyst for the War Manpower Comission (created by President F.D. Roosevelt in 1942) in Ohio. According to the 1945-46 Wagner college Catalog, he "resigned to enter war work." |
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