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American social scientist

Herta Herzog-Massing (August 14, 1910 – February 25, 2010) was an Austrian-Americansocial scientist specializing in communication studies.

Her most prominent contribution to the field, an article entitled "What Do We Really Know About Daytime Serial Listeners?", is considered a pioneering work of the uses-and-gratifications approach and the cognitive revolution in media research.

She was married to Paul Lazarsfeld, and later to Paul Massing, and was stepmother to Lazarsfeld's daughter, MIT professor Lotte Bailyn.

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Biography

Originally a student of Karl Bühler at university in Vienna, Herzog elected to do her dissertation under Paul Lazarsfeld, a survey about the then-new medium of radio. She received her Ph.D. in psychology in 1932 despite developing a crippling case of polio, from which her right arm never fully recovered.^[1]

In 1935, she followed Lazarsfeld to the United States and married him there shortly after Lazarsfe