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* Rosalind Lorwin Feierabend; Social Psychologist, Politician

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Rosalind Lorwin Feierabend, 66, a prize-winning social psychologist, a former professor at San Diego State, Southland politician and for 10 years director of the International Society of Political Psychology. After graduating with degrees in political science and psychology from Swarthmore College, she studied for a time at the International School in Geneva. In 1955 she earned a doctorate in psychology from Yale. Over the years her research was credited with clarifying the levels of conflict within societies based on their socioeconomic and political conditions. In 1966 she and her then husband, Ivo K. Feierabend, were awarded the Socio-Psychological Prize of the American Assn. for the Advancement of Science. She also served on the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence. She devoted many years to local government and was a former mayor of Del Mar, where she died Dec. 24 of the complications of cancer.

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