BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Professor of Human Development and Family Studies, Cornell
University.
John Harding received his B.A. from the University of Minnesota and his M.A. and
Ph.D. in psychology from Harvard in 1943. In 1942 he held a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship at the
Princeton University Office of Public Opinion Research. During W.W.II he served
as a research psychologist with the U.S. Army Air Forces. From 1946-1952 he
carried out research on methods combatting prejudice and discrimination for the
Commission on Community Interrelations of the American Jewish Congress, which
was founded by Kurt Lewin and from 1952-1953 he was employed on a test
development project at New York University's Research Center for Human
Relations. In 1953 Harding came to Cornell University in the Dept. of Child
Development and Family Relationships and was associated with the Cornell
Program in Social Psychiatry. His research was in the areas of intergroup
relations and mental health. He was a member of the American Psychological
Association, the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, and the
Society for Research in Child Development. Harding retired from Cornell in
1989.
