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A major book, modest in its presentation–
overwhelming in its implications
THE
HUMAN
DIMENSION:
EXPERIENCES IN POLICY RESEARCH
by Hadley Cantril
In simple, narrative form, this book describes the author's attempts
over many years to inject consideration of psychological factors
into the making of crucial government decisions.
If
full use had
been made of the polls conducted by the Institute for International
Social Research, which Dr. Cantril heads, the United States might
have avoided our 1960 catastrophe in Cuba. Had action been taken
on the information acquired by the polls of 1962 in Santo Domingo,
the violence of 1965 might well have been prevented.
The book is an urgent invitation to top policy-makers to look at
the peoples of the world-through the eyes of the people them–
selves-by means of a constant and sympathetic use, at all levels of
policy-making, of the easily applied techniques he demonstrates.
DR. CANTRIL has been psychological advisor to all but one of
the last five administrations. During World War II, he was an
expert consultant to the Secretary of War and to the Office of War
Information.
$7.50 at bookstores or from
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903
