Background
Dollard, John was born on August 29, 1900 in Menasha, Wisconsin, United States. Son of James E. and Ellen (Brady) Dollard.
Dollard, John was born on August 29, 1900 in Menasha, Wisconsin, United States. Son of James E. and Ellen (Brady) Dollard.
Dollard studied commerce and English at the University of Wisconsin and received his Bachelor of Arts in 1922. He earned his Doctor of Philosophy in sociology from the University of Chicago in 1931.
lieutenant was there he published Caste and Class in a Southern Town, the now classic sociological study of race relations in the Deep South. He spent five months doing field research in Indianola, Mississippi, the same town anthropologist Hortense Powdermaker studied in her book After Freedom. With Neal East. Miller, a fellow researcher at the Institute of Human Relations, Dollard served as a consultant to the Morale Services Division of the United States. Department of War.
From 1941 to 1945 he studied fear and morale in modern warfare, which culminated in several reports, including Fear and Courage under Battle Conditions (1943) and "Fear in Battle" (The Infantry Journal, 1944).
Dollard became a psychologist at Yale"s Department of Psychology in 1942 and retired as professor emeritus in 1969.
Served as private United States Army, 1918. Certified professional psychology, 1947. Fellow American Psychological Association (diplomate in clinical psychology), American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Academy Arts and Sciences.
Member West. New England Psychoanalytic Society, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, Alpha Tau Omega.
Clubs: Lawn, Mory’s Association (New Haven).
Married Victorine Day, November 28, 1930 (divorced 1959). Married second, Joan Ganis Palance, December 23, 1961. Children: Julie (Mistress R. B. Bradford), John Day, Victorine, Peter Day.