Ian MacCrone

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Ian Douglas MacCrone (May 7, 1898 – June 11, 1981) was a South African liberal psychologist. He was vice-chancellor at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and worked in the fields of social psychology and race psychology.^[1]

Career[edit]

MacCrone was a professor of psychology and served as the head of the Psychology Department at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in the mid-1920s. In 1963, MacCrone was appointed as the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Witwatersrand and held this position until 1968.^[2] Soon after, MacCrone received an honorary Doctor of Law degree (DPhil HonLLD) from the University of the Witwatersrand in 1969.^[3] In addition, MacCrone was the president of the Psychology Society, Johannesburg (PSJ), which was the forerunner of the South African Psychological Association (SAPA), the first South African association for psychologists.^[4]

Published work[edit]

MacCrone’s work was focused on racial segregation, attitudes and prejudice. His seminal work, Race Attitudes in South Africa: Historical, Experimental, and Psychological, sought to understand the causes of racial prejudice.^[5] In this book, MacCrone introduced scales for measuring attitudes and social distances of various South African groups.^[6][7] In doing so, MacCrone used three different approaches: historical, experimental and psychological.^[8] MacCrone suggested that racial antipathy can be identified through psychoanalysis as the result of motives of the unconscious mind. Thus, MacCrone provided one of the earliest psychoanalytic explanations for the racial conflict that occurred in South Africa.^[9] MacCrone’s earlier work, Group Conflicts and Race Prejudice, sought to discuss the impact of race prejudices on group conflicts within the context of a diversity of cultures in South Africa.^[10]His lecture, Psychology in Perspective, gives an account of contemporary psychology and the recent developments in the field at the time.^[11][12]

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