Student Theses and Dissertations Supervised by the Sherifs
- Avigdor, Rozet (1952). The Development of Stereotypes as a Result of Group Interaction. PhD Dissertation, New York University; [The dissertation is summarized in M. Sherif and C. Sherif, Groups in Harmony and Tension, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1953, pp. 290-295.]
- Walter, Norman (1952). A Study of the Effects of Conflicting Suggestions Upon Judgment in the Autokinetic Situation. PhD Dissertation, University of Oklahoma (Psychology, Advisor: Muzafer Sherif). [A journal version of the thesis was published in Sociometry, 1955, 18, 138-146.]
- Harvey, O. J. (1954). An Experimental Investigation of Negative and Positive Relations Between Small Groups Through Judgmental Indices. PhD Dissertation, University of Oklahoma (Psychology, Advisor: Muzafer Sherif); [A journal version of this dissertation was published in Sociometry, 1956, 19, 201-209.]
- Thrasher, James (1954). Interpersonal Relations and Gradations of Stimulus Structure in Judgment Variation: An Experimental Approach. PhD Dissertation, University of Oklahoma (Psychology, Advisor: Muzafer Sheriff); [A journal version of this dissertation was published in Sociometry, 1954, 17, 228-241.]
- Cohen, Edwin (1955). Stimulus Conditions as Factors in Social Change. PhD Dissertation, University of Oklahoma (Psychology, Advisor: Muzafer Sherif); [A journal version of this dissertation was published in Sociometry, 1957, 20, 135-144.
- Combs, William Francis (1957). Judgmental Performance of the Blind as Affected by Social and Physical Conditions. PhD Dissertation, University of Oklahoma (Psychology, Advisor: Muzafer Sherif).
- Prado, William (1958). Appraisal of Performance as a Function of the Relative Ego-Involvement of Children and Adolescents. PhD Dissertation, University of Oklahoma (Psychology, Advisor: Muzafer Sherif). [The dissertation was summarized M. Sherif and C. Sherif, Social Psychology, New York: Harper & Row, 1969, pp. 440-441.]
- Whittaker, James O. (1958). Effects of Experimentally Introduced Anchorages Upon Judgments in the Autokinetic Situation. PhD Dissertation, University of Oklahoma (Psychology, Advisor: Muzafer Sherif); [A journal version was published as "Parameters of Social Influence in the Autokinetic Situation," Sociometry, 1964, 27, 88-95.]
- White, B. Jack (1960). The Relationship of Concept Availability to Contrast Effects in Judgment. PhD Dissertation, University of Oklahoma (Psychology, Advisor: Muzafer Sherif); [The dissertation was summarized by M. Sherif and C. Hovland, Social Judgment, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1961, pp. 60-61.]
- Hood, William Robert (1961). Rigidity of Concept Utilization as a Function of Inductive and Deductive Derivation. PhD Dissertation, University of Oklahoma (Psychology, Advisor: Muzafer Sherif).
- LaFave, Lawrence (1961). Humor Judgments as a Function of Reference Groups: An Experimental Study. PhD Dissertation, University of Oklahoma (Psychology, Advisor: Muzafer Sherif); [A version of the dissertation was published as "Humor Judgments as a Function of Reference Groups and Identification Classes," in J. Goldstein and P. McGhee (Eds.), The Psychology of Humor, New York: Academic Press, 1972, pp. 195-210.]
- Sherif, Carolyn W. (1961). Established Reference Scales and Series Effects in Social Judgment. PhD Dissertation, University of Texas (Psychology, Advisor: Robert R. Blake); [A journal version was published as "Social Categorization as a Function of Latitude of Acceptance and Series Range," Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 1963, 67, 148-156.]
- Vaughan, Kathryn R. (1961). A Disguised Instrument for the Assessment of Intergroup Attitudes. Masters Thesis, Texas College of Arts and Industries. (Psychology, Advisor: William R. Hood); [The dissertation was summarized in C. Sherif, M. Sherif, and R. Nebergall, Attitude and Attitude Change, Philadelphia: Saunders, 1965, pp. 118-122.]
- Elbing, Alvar (1962). An Experimental Investigation of the Influence of Reference Group Identification on Role Playing as Applied to Business. PhD Dissertation, University of Washington (Business Administration, Advisor: Theodore J. Barnowe); [The dissertation was summarized in C. Sherif, M. Sherif, and R. Nebergall, Attitude and Attitude Change, Philadelphia: Saunders, 1965, pp. 47, 53, 177-178, 181, 198-199, 234.
- Koslin, Bertram (1963). Preliminary Experiments on the Process of Norm and Attitude Change During Collective Behavior. PhD Dissertation, University of Oklahoma (Psychology, Advisor: Muzafer Sherif).
- Larimer, George (1963). Ambiguity and Nearness of Anchors as Factors in Assimilation Effects. PhD Dissertation, University of Utah (Psychology, Advisor: B. Jack White); [A journal version was published as American Journal of Psychology, 1965, 78, 414-422.]
- Pollis, Nicholas (1964). Relative Stability of Scales Formed in Individual, Togetherness, and Group Situations. PhD Dissertation, Universitv of Oklahoma (Psychology, Advisor: Muzafer Sherif); A journal version was published as British Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 1967, 6, 249-255.
- Russell, J. Gene (1965). Effects of Reference Group Identifications on the Relative Importance Ascribed to Problems by Iranian and Latin American Students at the University of Oklahoma. Doctor of Education Dissertation, University of Oklahoma (Education, Co-advisors, F. F. Gaither and Muzafer Sherif).
- Lauderdale, Michael (1967). A Study of Small Groups in Socially Differentiated Settings. PhD Dissertation, University of Oklahoma (Psychology, Advisor: William R. Hood).
- MacNeil, Mark (1967). Power of Status in Norm Formation Under Differing Conditions of Group Solidarity. PhD Dissertation, University of Oklahoma (Psychology, Advisor: William R. Hood); [The dissertation was summarized by M. Sherif and C. Sherif, Social Psychology, New York: Harper & Row, 1969, pp. 167-169.[
- Rand, Melvin (1967). An Empirical Comparison of Sherif s Social Judgment Approach and Festinger's Dissonance Theory at Their Points of Contrast: Ego Involvement and Discrepancy of Communication. PhD Dissertation, University of Oklahoma (Psychology, Advisor: Arnold Dahlke).
- Shurtleff, Samuel (1967). An Extension and Comparison of the Own Categories Procedure in the Measurement of Attitudes and Personality Characteristics. PhD Dissertation, University of Oklahoma (Psychology, Advisor: William R. Hood).
- Alter, Richard (1967). Effects of Own Stand, Ego-Involvement, Personality, and Information on Item Judgment. PhD Dissertation, University of Utah (Psychology, Advisor: B. Jack White).
- Sampson, Samuel F. (1968). Crisis in the Cloisters: A Sociological Analysis. PhD Dissertation, Cornell University; [Dissertation summarized in M. Sherif and C. Sherif, Social Psychology, New York: Harper & Row, 1969, pp. 168-170.]
- Montgomery, Robert L. (1968). Status, Conformity, and Resistance to Compliance in Natural Groups. PhD Dissertation, Oklahoma State University (Psychology, Advisor: Nicholas Pollis); A journal version published as Journal of Social Psychology, 1971, 84, 197-206.
- Pargament, Richard (1968). Effects of Opinion Extremity on Cognitions of a Contemporary Social Issue. PhD Dissertation, Princeton University (Psychology, Advisor: Bertram Koslin).
- Granberg, Donald (1969). Adaptation of Psychophysical and Psychosocial Judgments to Shifts in Stimuli. PhD Dissertation, Pennsylvania State University (Sociology, Advisor: Muzafer Sherif); [A journal version was published as Journal of General Psychology, 1972, 86, 85-92.]
- Sarup, Gian (1969). Reference Groups: Some Determinants and Consequences. PhD Dissertation, Pennsylvania State University (Sociology, Advisor: Muzafer Sherif); [A journal version was published as "The Anchoring Effects of Reference Groups on Judgmental Positivity and Certainty," Indian Journal of Psychology, 1974, 49 (Part 2), 109-118; also reported in C. Sherif, M. Kelly, H. Rodgers, G. Sarup, and B. Tittler, "Personal Involvement, Social Judgment, and Action," Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1973, 27, 311-328. ]
- Phifer, Mary Kaye (1970). Influence of the Process of Discrimination in the Selection of Items for an Attitude Scale. PhD Dissertation, University of Oklahoma (Psychology, Advisor: William R. Hood).
- Rollins, Joan Heller (1970). Reference Identification of Youth of Differing Ethnicity. PhD Dissertation, University of Oklahoma (Psychology, Advisor: John R. Morris, Jr.); [A journal version was published as Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1973, 26, 222-231.
- Gorn, Gerald (1971). Effects of Ego-Involvement, Communication Discrepancy, and Communicator Prestige on Attitude Change. PhD Dissertation, Pennsylvania State University (Psychology, Advisor: Carolyn W. Sherif); [A journal version was published as "The Effects of Personal Involvement, Communication Discrepancy, and Source Prestige on Reactions to Communication on Separatism," Canadian Journal of Behavioral Science, 1975, 7 (No. 4), 369-386.
- Rotzoll, Kim (1971). Latitudes of Acceptance, Rejection, and Noncommitment, and the Evaluation of Two Communications on Withdrawal From Vietnam. PhD Dissertation, Pennsylvania State University (Sociology, Advisor: Muzafer Sherif).
- Gomes, Ralph (1973). Reference Groups and National Attitudes of Elites in a Newly Independent Nation. PhD Dissertation, Pennsylvania State University (Sociology, Advisor: Muzafer Sherif).
- Jenks, Richard (1974). An Analysis of Judgments of Policy Positions in the 1972 Election. PhD Dissertation, University of Missouri (Sociology, Advisor: Donald Granberg); [A journal version was published as "Assimilation and Contrast Effects in the 1972 Election," Human Relations, 1977, 30, 623-640.]
- Shaffer, Leigh (1974). Importance of Norms, Group Structure and Situational Thresholds as Factors in Attitude-Related Behavior. PhD Dissertation, Pennsylvania State University (Psychology, Advisor: Carolyn W. Sherif ; [Summarized by C. Sherif, Orientation in Social Psychology, New York: Harper & Row, 1976, pp. 264-265].
- White, Michael (1974). The Effects of Deindividuating Conditions and Reference Group Salience on Counter-Normative Behavior. PhD Dissertation, Pennsylvania State University (Psychology, Advisor: Carolyn W. Sherif);[A journal version was published as "Counternormative Behavior as Influenced by Deindividuating Conditions and Reference Group Salience," Journal of Social Psychology, 1977, 103, 75-100.]
- Escovar, Luis (1975). Categorization in Young Children: A Study in Social Cognitive Development. PhD Dissertation, Pennsylvania State University (Psychology, Advisor: Carolyn W. Sherif); [Summarized in C. Sherif, "Social Values, Attitudes, and Involvement of the Self," Nebraska Symposium on Motivation, 1980, 41-42.]
- Kearney, Helen (1975). Personal Involvement and Communication Content in Social Judgment of a Controversial Issue. PhD Dissertation, Pennsylvania State University (Psychology, Advisor: Carolyn W. Sherif); [Summarized by C. Sherif, "Social Values, Attitudes and Involvement of the Self," Nebraska Symposium on Motivation, 1980, 51-54.]
- Pace, Dorothy Jane (1975). Natural Groups Among College Women. PhD Dissertation, Oklahoma State University (Psychology, Advisor: Mark MacNeil).
- Quarton, Richard J. (1976). The Development of Social Cognition: RoleTaking. PhD Dissertation, Pennsylvania State University (Psychology, Advisor: Carolyn W. Sherif).
- Holcomb, Linda Anne (1976). Sex Bias in Experimental Norm Formation by Traditional and Non-Traditional Women. PhD Dissertation, Oklahoma State University (Psychology, Advisor: Mark MacNeil).
- Roberts, Benjamin (1977). Reference Groups and Orientations of Black Students in a Predominantly White University. PhD Dissertation, Pennsylvania State University (Psychology, Advisor: Carolyn W. Sherif).
- Rogers, Jean Li (1978). Researcher's Race, Ego-Involvement and Attitude Behavior Consistency: A Study in the Social Psychology of the Research Situation. PhD Dissertation, Pennsylvania State University (Sociology, Co Advisors: Muzafer Sherif and George Theodorson).
- Rogers, Larry (1978). The Influence of Ego-Involvement on Attitude Structures for Issues of Varying Degrees of Personal Relevance. PhD Dissertation, Pennsylvania State University (Sociology, Co-Advisors: Muzafer Sherif and George Theodorson).
- Signorella, Margaret (1979). The Cognitive Consequences of Personal Involvement in Gender Identity. PhD Dissertation, Pennsylvania State University (Psychology, Advisor: Carolyn W. Sheriff ; [ A journal version was published in Sex Roles, 1985, 11, (Nos. 9-10), 923-939.]
- Vegega, Maria (1980). Structural Supervision Conditions and Attitudinal Variables: The Effects on Men and Women in a Supervision Task. PhD Dissertation, Pennsylvania State University (Psychology, Advisor: Carolyn W. Sherif).
