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Marie Jahoda was a social psychologist who maintained a firm belief in equity and social justice throughout her life. Born and educated in Austria, she was imprisoned in 1936 for supporting the socialist movement against a political background of growing support for fascism. Released in 1937 as a result of foreign appeals, she went to Cambridge University for the duration of the war, spent from 1945 to 1958 in the USA before returning to Britain, where she was influential in the development of the psychology of prejudice . Her most famous work was a detailed longitudinal case study of the psychology of unemployment, drawing data and examples from Marienthal, where a sudden shut-down of a flax mill had removed the only significant source of employment in the village, and showing how initial resilience eventually morphed into despair.
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