'Hadley Cantril' (1906 - 1969) was an American researcher in the study of public opinion. Born in Utah, he was educated at Dartmouth College and received his Ph.D. from Harvard. He joined the faculty of Princeton in 1936 and later became chairman of Princeton University Department of Psychology.

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  • 'Hadley Cantril' (1906 - 1969) was an American researcher in the study of public opinion. Born in Utah, he was educated at Dartmouth College and received his Ph.D. from Harvard. He joined the faculty of Princeton in 1936 and later became chairman of Princeton University Department of Psychology. He was a member of the Princeton Radio Research Project before it relocated to Columbia in the early 1940s, and was the lead author of The Invasion from Mars, the seminal academic study of the 1938 War of the Worlds broadcast. During 1940 he served as a consultant to the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs. Cantril's later work in psychology included work with Adelbert Ames, Jr. advancing a transactional approach to the study of human perception, as well as other research in the Humanistic Psychology.
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  • 'Hadley Cantril' (1906 - 1969) was an American researcher in the study of public opinion. Born in Utah, he was educated at Dartmouth College and received his Ph.D. from Harvard. He joined the faculty of Princeton in 1936 and later became chairman of Princeton University Department of Psychology.
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  • Hadley Cantril
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