19 Facts About Theodore Newcomb

Theodore Mead Newcomb was an American social psychologist, professor and author.

Theodore Newcomb was the first to document the effects of proximity on acquaintance and attraction.

Theodore Newcomb founded and directed the doctoral program in social psychology at the University of Michigan.

Theodore Newcomb was born in Rock Creek, Ohio, on July 24,1903.

The Newcombs were ostracized for coming out against the Ku Klux Klan when Theodore was growing up.

Theodore Newcomb attended small rural schools until he started high school in Cleveland.

Theodore Newcomb completed a PhD at Columbia University in 1929 where he worked closely with Goodwin Watson and Gardner Murphy.

Theodore Newcomb held academic appointments at Lehigh University, Case Western Reserve University, Bennington College and the University of Michigan.

Theodore Newcomb served in the military during World War II between 1942 and 1945, assigned to the Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service in the Office of strategic Services and in the US Strategic Bombing Survey.

Shortly after his return from the war, Theodore Newcomb founded Michigan's Survey Research Center, which became the Institute for Social Research.

Theodore Newcomb founded Michigan's doctoral program in social psychology with Robert Angell and Donald Marquis, and he chaired the program from 1947 to 1953.

Theodore Newcomb died at home in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1984 at 81 years old.

Theodore Newcomb was survived by his wife, the former Mary Esther Shipherd; two daughters, Esther Goody, of Cambridge, England, and Suzanne Mosher, of Chelsea, Michigan; a son, Theodore M Newcomb, Jr.

Theodore Newcomb studied the kinds of individual and small-group teachings that were possible at a small college.

Theodore Newcomb developed many longitudinal studies, something that was considered a novelty in the psychological field.

Theodore Newcomb offered 17 men entering college free rent as long as they recorded their attitudes, likes, and dislikes each week.

Theodore Newcomb assigned each of the young women in his Bennington College study into their rooms at random.

Theodore Newcomb found that many of the dyads in his Bennington College study consisted of roommates and individuals in adjoining rooms.

Theodore Newcomb found that his sample consisted of two main sub-groups.