Doctoral Dissertations in Psychology granted by the University of Chicago, 1895 – 1935
The information on this page comes from Richard Lee Smith's 1977 doctoral dissertation entitled George Herbert Mead and Sociology: The Chicago Years. Originally, the document was prepared as part of an review of Smith's methodology in American Sociology and Pragmatism. We include it here as tool for other researchers working on the period. We view this as a work in progress and it should be used as such.
| Year | Student | Dissertation title |
| 1903 | John Broadus Watson | The Psychic Development of the White Rat Correlated with the Growth of the Nervous System |
| 1904 | Jessie Blount Allen | The Psychology of the Guinea-Pig |
| 1905 | Harvey Carr | Some Visual Illusions Due to Eye Closure |
| 1907 | June Etta Downey | Control Processes in Handwriting: An Experimental Study of Verbal Imagery. |
| Grace Maxwell Fernald | The Phenomena of Peripheral Vision as Affected by the Brightness of Background and by Dark Adaptation | |
| Joseph Peterson | Ohm's Law in Relation to Some Secondary Phenomena of Hearing. | |
| 1908 | Walter Van Dyke Bingham | Studies in Melody and Movement. |
| Florence Ella Richardson | Sensory Control Processes in the Rat | |
| Clarence Stone Yoakum | An Experimental Study of Fatigue | |
| 1909 | Harvey Andrew Peterson | The Influence of Complexity and Dissimilarity in Memory |
| Arthur Howard Sutherland | Word Association Reactions: A Contribution to the Analysis of Ideational Complexes | |
| 1910 | Henry Foster Adams | Autokinetic Sensations |
| Mabel Ruth Fernald | Diagnosis of Mental Imagery | |
| Mary Holmes Stevens Hayes | Cutaneous After-Sensations | |
| Clara Jean Weidensall | A Study of Visual Rhythm | |
| 1911 | Jasper Converse Barnes | Experimental Analysis of Voluntary Movement |
| Ethel May Chamberlain | The Purkinje Phenomenon | |
| Joseph Wanton Hayes | Investigation of the Horizontal-Vertical Illusion of Brightness in Foveal Vision | |
| 1912 | Walter Samuel Hunter | The Delayed Reaction |
| Fleming Allen Clay Perrin | An Experimental and Introspective Study of the Human Learning Process in the Maze | |
| Carl Leo Stahr Rahn | A Critical and Constructive Study of the Psychology of Thinking | |
| Stella Burnham Vincent | The Function of Vibrissae in the Behavior of the White Rat. | |
| 1913 | Edwina Abbott | The Difference Limen in Temperature Sensations |
| 1914 | Ellsworth Faris | The Psychology of Punishment |
| Roberts Bishop Owen | The Psychology of Recognition | |
| 1915 | Harry Dexter Kitson | The Scientific Study of the College Student |
| 1916 | Louis Augustus Pechstein | Method in Motor Learning |
| Sarah Margaret Ritter | The Vertical-Horizontal Illusion — An Experimental Study of Disparities in the Normal Visual Field | |
| Louie Winfield Webb | Transfer of Training and Retroaction, a Comparative Study | |
| 1917 | Ada Hart Artlitt | Effect of Alcohol on the Intelligent Behavior of the White Rat |
| Shoan Masuzo Fukuya | Affects of Attention upon the Efficiency of Intellectual Functions | |
| Edward Safford Jones | The Influence of Age and Experience on Correlations Connected with Mental Tests | |
| Conrad Lund Kjerstad | The Form of the Learning Curve | |
| John Christian Peterson | An Experimental Study of the Higher Mental Processes in Learning | |
| Curt Rosenow | Analysis of Mental Functions | |
| Beardsley Ruml | The Reliability of Mental Tests in the Division of an Academic Group | |
| Louis Leon Thurstone | The Learning Curve Equation | |
| Rutledge Thornton Wiltbank | Transfer of Learning in Animals | |
| 1918 | Harry Hanes Wylie | An Experimental Study of Transfer of Responses in White Rats |
| 1920 | Forrest Alva Kingsbury | A Group Intelligence Scale for Primary Grades |
| Chih Wei Luh | The Conditions of Retention | |
| Edward Stevens Robinson | Some Factors Determining the Degree of Retroactive Inhibition | |
| Margaret Wooster | Certain Factors in the Formation of a New Spatial Coordination | |
| Joseph Ussery Yarbrough | Influence of Time Interval upon the Rate of Learning in the White Rate | |
| 1921 | Helen Louis Koch | The Influence of Mechanical Guidance upon Maze Learning |
| Katherine Eva Ludgate | The Effect of Manual Guidance on Maze Learning | |
| 1922 | William Berry | The Flight of Colors in the After-image of a Bright, White Light |
| Elmer Augustin Culler | The Distribution of Practice in Animal Learning | |
| Tsu Lien Wang | The Influence of Tuition in the Acquiring of Skill | |
| John Carl Warden | The Distribution of Practice in Animal Learning | |
| 1924 | William Emet Blatz | A Physiological Study of the Emotion of Fear |
| Chester William Darrow | The Effect of Bodily Attitudes in Facilitating and Inhibiting Verbal Association | |
| William Thomas Heron | Individual Differences in Ability versus Chance in the Learning of the Stylus Maze | |
| Vivienne Robinson McClatchy | The Optimal Position of a Rest Period in Learning | |
| Irene Case Sherman | The Suggestibility of Normal and Mentally Defective Children | |
| Chiao Tsai | A Comparative Study of Retention Curves for Motor Habits. | |
| 1925 | Augustin Sicak Alonzo | The Influence of Manual Guidance upon Maze Learning |
| Margaret Elizabeth Miller | The Effect of Certain Conditions of Muscular Contraction and Relaxation on the Non-Voluntary Reaction to an Electrical Shock | |
| Milbourne Otto Wilson | Interests of College Students | |
| 1926 | Myron Call Barlow | Measurement of Intelligence in Mental Multiplication by Learning Curve Equation Constants and Other Achievements |
| Arthur Gilbert Bills | The Influence of Muscular Tension on the Efficiency of Mental Work | |
| Arthur William Kornhauser | A Statistical Study of Some Methods Used in Judging College Students | |
| John Alexander McGeoch | A Study of the Psychology of Testimony | |
| Shuh Pan | The Influence of Contextual Conditions upon Learning and Recall. | |
| William Herbert Sheldon, Jr. | Some Relations Between Certain Physical, Mental and Social Traits. | |
| Ernst Frederick Thelin | The Perception of Relative Visual Motion | |
| Osborne Williams | A Study of the Phenomenon of Reminiscence | |
| Thelma Gwinn Thurstone | The Relation Between the Difficulty of A Test and Its Diagnostic Value. | |
| 1927 | Frances Rebecca Botkin | The Influence of Visual Guidance on the Acquisition of Skill |
| Yun Hsuan Ho | Transfer and Degree of Integration | |
| Shao Yu Liu | The Relation of Age to the Learning Ability of the White Rat | |
| Mandel Sherman | Sensory, Motor and Emotional Development of Infants | |
| Dorritt Stumberg | An Experimental Study of Poetic Talent | |
| Goodrich Cook White | The Work Curve in Memorizing and Its Relation to Retention | |
| Paul LeRoy Whitely | The Dependence of Learning and Recall upon Prior Intellectual Activities | |
| 1928 | Mattie Crumpton Hardy | The Effect of Distribution of Practice on Learning a Stylus Maze |
| Kate Hevner | A Comparative Study of Three Psychophysical Methods | |
| William Charles Frederick Krueger | The Effect of Overlearning and Retention | |
| Laurence Spurgeon McLeod | A Study Interrelations of Speed, Accuracy and Difficulty | |
| Winford Lee Sharp | Disintegrative Effects of Continuous Running and Removal of Food Incentives upon a Maze Habit of Albino Rats. | |
| Edward Guthrie Stoy | A Preliminary Study of Ocular Attitude in Thinking of Spatial Relations | |
| Rachel Stutsman | A Scale of Mental Tests for Pre-School Children. | |
| Loh Seng Tsai | Graduated versus Abrupt Withdrawal of Guidance in Maze Learning | |
| Isabel King Wallace | Reaction Time in Discriminatory Judgments | |
| Georgina Elnora Wylie | Whole versus Part Methods of Learning as Dependent upon Practice. | |
| 1929 | Nai-Yi Cheng | The Relation of Retroactive Effect to the Degree of Similarity |
| Clarence William Brown | The Influence of the Assimilative Character of Memory Material on Retention | |
| Robert Wallace Bruce | Conditions of Transfer of Training | |
| Elmer Dumond Hinckley | The Influence of Individual Opinion on Construction of an Attitude Scale | |
| Marion Monroe | The Drawings and Color Preference of Young Children | |
| Everett Frank Patten | The Duration of Post-hypnotic Suggestion | |
| Hattie Nesbit Smith | The Construction and Application of a Scale for Measuring Attitudes about Prohibition | |
| Minnie Louise Steckel | Intelligence and Birth Order in Family | |
| 1930 | Eva Ruth Balken | Affective, Volitional and Galvanic Factors in Learning |
| William Harold Cowley | A Study of the Traits of Face-to-Face Leaders | |
| Margaret Frank | The Effect of A Rickets-producing Diet on the Learning Ability of White Rats | |
| Mary Alden Morgan Lee | The Relation of the Knee Jerk and Standing Steadiness to Nervous Instability | |
| Grace Oberschelp McGeoch | The Factor of the Intelligence Quotient in the Whole-part Problem | |
| Wilson McTeer | A Study of Certain Feature of Punishment in Serial Learning | |
| Helen Joy Reed | The Influence of a Change of Conditions upon the Amount Recalled | |
| Nathan Wetherill Schock | Mental Performances and the Acid Base Balance of Normal Individuals | |
| James Bart Stroud | The Role of Muscular Tension in Stylus Maze Learning | |
| Martin Marshall White | Relation of Bodily Tension to Electrical Resistance | |
| Kwang Sup Yum | An Experimental Test of the Law of Assimilation | |
| 1931 | Martin F. Fritz | Maze Performance of the White Rate in Relation to Unfavorable Salt Mixture and Vitamin B Deficiency |
| Harold O. Gulliksen | Transfer of Response in Human Subjects | |
| Aaron Paul Horst | A Method of Determining the Absolute Scale Value of a Series of Stimulus Situations | |
| Otis C. Ingebritsen | Co-ordinating Mechanisms of the Spinal Cord | |
| Fred McKinney | Certain Emotional Factors in Learning and Efficiency | |
| George M. Peterson | An Empirical Study of the Ability to Generalize | |
| John G. Rockwell | Thyro-Parathyroid Deficiency as Related to Learning | |
| James T. Russell | Applicability of the Probable Error Formulae to Psychological Data | |
| Harold A. Swenson | The Relative Influence of Accommodation and Convergence in the Judgment of Distance | |
| Charles K.A. Wang | The Significance of Early Personal History for Certain Personality Traits | |
| Lester C. Wiley | The Function of the Brain in Audition | |
| 1932 | Hubert C. Newland | The Change in Attitude towards Sex Freedom as Disclosed by American Journals of Opinion during the Years 1911 to 1930. |
| 1933 | Karl S. Bernhardt | The Effect of Vitamin B Deficiency during Nursing on Subsequent Learning in the Rat |
| Clara Burri | Individual Differences in Ability to Alternate Activities | |
| Joseph A. Hawthorne | A Group Test for the Measurement of Cruelty-Comparison. A Proposed Means of Recognizing Potential Criminality | |
| Chung Fan Ni | An Experimental Study of the Influence of Punishment For Errors During Learning upon Retention | |
| Henry N. Peters | Mediated Association | |
| 1934 | Marion E. Bunch | Certain Effects of Electric Shock in Learning a Stylus Maze |
| Stanley G. Dulsky | The Effect of a Change of Background on Recall and Relearning | |
| Iva C. Gardner | The Effect of a Group of Social Stimuli upon Attitudes | |
| Chi Nan Hu | The Effects of Brain Injury upon Retentiveness in the Rat | |
| John D. Layman | Cerebral Function of the Domestic Foul in Pattern Vision | |
| Joseph W. Nagge | An Experimental Test of the Theory of Associative Interference | |
| Yu-Chuan Tsang | The Functions of the Visual Areas of the Cerebral Cortex of the Rat in the Learning and Retention of the Maze | |
| 1935 | Ch'uan Fan Lo | The Affective Value of Color Combinations |
| Walter A. Luria | A Study of Spanger's Value-Theory by the Method of Factor Analysis | |
| Lloyd W. Rowland | The Somatic Effects of Stimuli Graded in Respect to their Exciting Character | |
| Milton A. Saffir | A Comparative Study of Scales Constructed by Three Psychophysical Methods |
