In his 3rd year of high school he became interested in literature and was an enthusiastic reader of the works of Herbert Spencer and Ernst Haeckel.
Professors Friedrich Jodl and Wilhelm Jerusalem were a large influence on Vladimir, later receiving his doctorate from Vienna in 1911 with his thesis titled "About the necessity of the psychological establishment of the cognitive theory".
Dvorniković authored smaller articles regarding the history of culture, archeology, ethnology, and psychology, and was briefly involved in photography.
Dvorniković died in Belgrade on 30 September 1956, in what was at the time the Socialist Republic of Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia.
Written in Serbo-Croatian, Karakterologija Jugoslavena, addresses the need to establish a national character within the entire country of the then-Yugoslavia.
He claimed that Serbs and Croats could only survive as a strong nation by integrating into one people, such as the unification of Germans into Germany or that of Italians into Italy.
He also advocated the idea of a Dinaric race, and Dvorniković provided an overall comprehensive description of unified Yugoslav mythology.