I believe you are talking about Newcomb's classic study of Bennington coeds.
________________________________________ From: Mike Palij [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 11:28 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Cc: Mike Palij Subject: [tips] re: [tips] Professors' Liberalism Contagious? Maybe Not - NYTimes.com On Sun, 02 Nov 2008 21:08:17 -0800, Christopher D. Green wrote: >Whew! What a relief! We professors don't have much impact on >students' beliefs. >Wait a minute... :-) > http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/03/books/03infl.html I'm having a serious memory block but wasn't there a study of women attending college back around 1930 who entered relatively conservative (politically and socially) but by the time they graduated, they had become much more liberal in outlook. For some reason Wellesley keeps coming to mind but a Google search doesn't turn up anything. I also seems to think that I may have heard about this study when the playwright Wendy Wasserman was having some fame but I can't find a connection there either. Anyone know anything about this study? Or am I having serious memory distortion issues? Or both. ;-) -Mike Palij New York University [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
