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PhD Psychology Columbia University

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According to Wikipedia, Theodore Mead Newcomb was an American social psychologist, professor and author. Newcomb led the Bennington College Study, which looked at the influence of the college experience on social and political beliefs. He was also the first to document the effects of proximity on acquaintance and attraction. Newcomb founded and directed the doctoral program in social psychology at the University of Michigan. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Newcomb as the 57th most cited psychologist of the 20th century.

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Theodore Newcomb's Published Works

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The acquaintance process (1961) (1554)
Readings in Social Psychology (1948) (1281)
Theories of cognitive consistency: a sourcebook. (1968) (1196)
An approach to the study of communicative acts. (1953) (1110)
Four Critical Years: Effects of College on Beliefs, Attitudes, and Knowledge (1979) (836)
The prediction of interpersonal attraction (1956) (649)
Some consequences of de-individuation in a group (1952) (570)
Personality and social change (1943) (355)
Political Attitudes over the Life Span: The Bennington Women After Fifty Years (1992) (313)
The small world (1989) (237)
Persistence and Change. (1968) (205)
Some consequences of deindividuation in a group. (1952) (201)
Student Peer-Group Influence. (1962) (134)
Growing up in college (1968) (133)
Persistence and Change: Bennington College and its Students after Twenty-Five Years (1968) (128)
Autistic Hostility and Social Reality (1947) (123)
The relative abilities of leaders and non-leaders to estimate opinions of their own groups. (1952) (115)
Readings in social psychology, Rev. ed. (1952) (109)
Stabilities underlying changes in interpersonal attraction. (1963) (99)
Persistence and Change: Bennington College and Its Students after 25 Years (1969) (96)
Verbal learning . Early socialization : learning and identificatin . Risk taking as a function of the situation, the person, and the group (1967) (92)
The consistency of certain extrovert-introvert behavior patterns in 51 problem boys. (91)
An experiment designed to test the validity of a rating technique. (1931) (89)
Personality & social change : attitude formation in a student community (1957) (85)
Intra-family relationships in attitude. (1937) (74)
Psychological balance in situations of negative interpersonal attitudes. (1966) (70)
College Peer Groups: Problems and Prospects for Research. (1967) (57)
The acquaintance process as a prototype of human interaction. (1961) (53)
Human Nature in Politics (1963) (51)
The acquaintance process: Looking mainly backward. (1978) (49)
College peer groups : problems and prospects for research (1967) (43)
Group adjustment : a study in experimental sociology (1938) (41)
Group levels of aspiration in United Fund campaigns. (1967) (41)
Reciprocity of Interpersonal Attraction: A Nonconfirmation of a Plausible Hypothesis (1979) (29)
The influence of attitude climate upon some determinants of information. (1946) (28)
Experimental social psychology;: An interpretation of research upon the socialization of the individual, (1970) (27)
Heiderian balance as a group phenomenon. (1981) (26)
Autonomy for Inmates (1985) (24)
KURT LEWIN MEMORIAL AWARD ADDRESS‐1962 (1963) (22)
Role behaviors in the study of individual personality and of groups. (1950) (21)
Systems of orientation. (1961) (20)
The Impact of College on Students. Volume I: An Analysis of Four Decades of Research. Volume II: Summary Tables. (1973) (19)
Individual and Group (1978) (18)
Motivation in Social Behavior. (1950) (15)
Self selection and change (1970) (15)
Industrial conflict : a psychological interpretation (1941) (13)
Community Roles in Attitude Formation (1942) (12)
Experimental social psychology, Rev. ed. (1937) (12)
DEVIANT SUBCULTURES ON A COLLEGE CAMPUS. (1964) (11)
Time out. A National Study of Juvenile Correctional Programs (1978) (10)
Recent Changes in Attitudes Toward Sex and Marriage (1937) (8)
Success, failure, and wastage in higher education : an overview of the problem derived from research and theory (1970) (7)
Processes of Personality Development. (1950) (6)
Models of attitude change . Contemporary psychophysics . Ethology : an approach toward the complete analysis of behavior . Emotion (1962) (5)
Public Opinion and Public Opinion Polling: Discussion (1948) (4)
Identifying creative talent in psychology. (1962) (4)
Characteristics of Youths in a Sample of Correctional Programs (1978) (3)
Estimating interaction effects among overlapping pairs. (1957) (3)
Perceived Consensus Within and Among Occupational Classes (1956) (3)
The child within the group : an experiment in self-government (1957) (3)
Youth in Colleges and in Corrections: Institutional Influences. (1978) (2)
Sociology and Psychology. (1954) (2)
Environmental psychology . Clinical information processing by computer . Volunteer effects in behavioral research . Punishment and prohibitation : some origins of self-control (1970) (2)
The psychology of creativity . An essay on dreams : the role of physiology in understanding their nature . Emerging technologies for making decisions . Drives, rewards, and the brain (1965) (2)
Asking and Answering Questions about Social Influence. (1950) (2)
RESEARCH ACTIVITIES DETERMINANTS OF OPINION (1937) (1)
The love of ideas (1980) (1)
Rehabilitation Services of Veterans Organizations (1945) (1)
University, Heal Thyself (1969) (1)
Social psychology and group processes. (1953) (1)
Review of Social learning and imitation. (1942) (1)
Review of Personality; A Psychological Interpretation. (1939) (1)
The Contribution of the Interpersonal Environment to Students' Learning (1967) (1)
Individual changes toward balanced collective systems. (1961) (1)
Review of Color and human nature: Negro personality development in a northern city. (1942) (1)
News and morale: A miniature experiment. (1942) (1)
Persistence and Change of Attitudes. (1953) (1)
Time Out: A National Study of Juvenile Correctional Programs. (1979) (1)
Role Behavior and the Self. (1950) (1)
KURT LEWIN MEMORIAL AWARD MEETING (1950) (1)
Improving Reading Ability among Teachers College Students (1930) (1)
The second annual creative talent awards program in psychology. (1964) (0)
Acquiring Motives and Attitudes. (1950) (0)
Culture and Personality. (1950) (0)
Volume Information (1967) (0)
Industrial Conflict: 1939 Yearbook of the S.P.S.S.I. (1941) (0)
Social psychology / by Theodore M. Newcomb (1955) (0)
Book Review: The Changing Culture of a Factory (1951) (0)
The Measurement of Attitudes. (1950) (0)
Liberalism-Lecture Series Listing of Speakers and Topics (Abstracts) (1935) (0)
Multiple Group Membership. (1950) (0)
Review of Studies in the scope and method of "The Authoritarian Personality'. (1954) (0)
Retrospect and Prospect (1955) (0)
The Patterning of Self-other Attitudes. (1950) (0)
Two-person collective systems. (1961) (0)
Science and Culture-Bennington College Lecture Series (1937) (0)
Distinguished Scientific Contribution Awards for 1977 (1973) (0)
In Defense of EXCEL (1978) (0)
The contribution of personal characteristics to attraction. (1961) (0)
The Creative Talent Awards Program in Psychology. (1966) (0)
Change and Persistence of Attitudes. (1950) (0)
The attraction of floormates and roommates toward one another. (1961) (0)
Frank Interpretation@@@Personality and Social Change: Attitude Formation in a Student Community (1944) (0)
A Humanistic Science: Social Psychology and Human Values . Selected Essays. M. Brewster Smith. Aldine, Chicago, 1969. x + 438 pp. $12.50. (1970) (0)
Stability and Change in Groups (1970) (0)
Strain-related variables: Accuracy and balance. (1961) (0)
Individual Adaptation to Role Prescriptions. (1950) (0)
Science and Culture-Lecture Series Listing of Speakers and Topics (1937) (0)
Effects upon Individuals of Membership in Groups. (1950) (0)
Open Admissions: Before the Deluge. (1970) (0)
The Pigeon Reveals the Man. (1961) (0)
Early and late structuring of total populations. (1961) (0)
Week-to-week changes in attraction relationships. (1961) (0)
Goodwin Watson (1899-1976). (1979) (0)
Tapestry of Man and Ideas. (1970) (0)
Social Psychology and Human Values. Selected Essays. M. Brewster Smith. Aldine, Chicago, 1969. x + 438 pp. $12.50 (1970) (0)
Change and Persistence of Attitudes (continued). (1950) (0)
Group stereotypes of individuals' agreement in values. (1961) (0)
Book Review:The Growth and Structure of Motives: Psychological Studies in the Theory of Action. James Olds (1957) (0)
Uniformities and Variations in Social Behavior. (1950) (0)
Industrial electricity conservation projects that save electricity and reduce pollution (1993) (0)
Personality variables associated with strain and balance. (1961) (0)
Social Norms and Common Attitudes. (1950) (0)
Early and late differentiation of individuals, pairs, and triads. (1961) (0)
Studying social behavior. (1948) (0)

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