John Harding papers, 1927-2004.
Collection Number: 23-13-3872

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:

John Harding papers, 1927-2004.

Repository:

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections

Collection Number:

23-13-3872

Abstract:

Includes correspondence, publications, photographs, and subject files relating to John Harding's career and his work in social psychology.

Creator:

Harding, John

Quanitities:

6 cubic feet.

Language:

Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Professor of Human Development and Family Studies, Cornell University.

John Harding received his B.A. from the University of Minnesota and his M.A. and Ph.D. in psychology from Harvard in 1943. In 1942 he held a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship at the Princeton University Office of Public Opinion Research. During W.W.II he served as a research psychologist with the U.S. Army Air Forces. From 1946-1952 he carried out research on methods combatting prejudice and discrimination for the Commission on Community Interrelations of the American Jewish Congress, which was founded by Kurt Lewin and from 1952-1953 he was employed on a test development project at New York University's Research Center for Human Relations. In 1953 Harding came to Cornell University in the Dept. of Child Development and Family Relationships and was associated with the Cornell Program in Social Psychiatry. His research was in the areas of intergroup relations and mental health. He was a member of the American Psychological Association, the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, and the Society for Research in Child Development. Harding retired from Cornell in 1989.

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Includes correspondence, publications, photographs, and subject files relating to John Harding's career and his work in social psychology.

INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:

John Harding papers, #23-13-3872. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

SUBJECTS

Names:

Lewin, Kurt, 1890-1947.

Harding, John

Cornell University -- : Faculty.

New York State College of Human Ecology. Department of Human Development and Family Studies

American Jewish Congress

Cornell Program in Social Psychiatry

Subjects:

Stereotypes (Social psychology)

Psychology -- Study and teaching.

Form and Genre Terms:

Photographs.

CONTAINER LIST

Container		Description	Date
		Series I. Biographical
Box 1	Folder 1	Biographical information	1966-1988
Box 1	Folder 2	Personnel file	1951-1989
Box 1	Folder 3	Photographs
Box 1	Folder 4	Government security clearance information	1950-1953
		Series II. Correspondence
Box 1	Folder 5	Correspondence	1961-1962
Box 1	Folder 6	Correspondence	1963-1966
Box 1	Folder 7	Correspondence	1967-1974
Box 1	Folder 8	Correspondence with friends	1948
Box 1	Folder 9	Correspondence with friends	1977-1993
Box 1	Folder 10	Bronfenbrenner, Urie	1952-1956
Box 1	Folder 11	Gatch, Gerald - Correspondence, publications	1956-1964
Box 1	Folder 12	Goodchilds, Jackie - Correspondence, papers	1953-1962
Box 2	Folder 13	Loevinger, Jane - Research	1973-1988
Box 2	Folder 14	Rose, Arnold	1947-1968
Box 1	Folder 15	Schuman, Howard	1961-1988
Box 1	Folder 16	Wakim, Suad	1959-1980
Box 1	Folder 17	Journal of Social Issues - McCord correspondence	1957-1959
Box 1	Folder 18	Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) - Katz supplement	1957-1959
Box 1	Folder 19	Katz correspondence	1962-1967
Box 1	Folder 20	Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) and Journal of Social Issues - Correspondence	1950-1970
Box 1	Folder 21	Journal of Social Issues-SPSSI Council	1952-1960
Box 1	Folder 22	Journal of Social Issues - Brewster Smith	1952-1956
Box 1	Folder 23	Journal of Social Issues - Robert Chin	1958-1964
Box 1	Folder 24	Letter from Harding to Dr. Launor Carter	1953
		Series III. Research and Professional
Box 1	Folder 25	Personality tests	1950s
Box 1	Folder 26	Calibration study - Stirlin and Midtown	1967-1975
Box 1	Folder 27	Psychologists	1989, 1996
Box 1	Folder 28	Washington University Sentence Completion Test	1980-1981
Box 1	Folder 29	Code to moral dilemma questionnaire
Box 1	Folder 30	Moral dilemma interviews
Box 1	Folder 31	Prejudice project	1961
Box 1	Folder 32	Prejudice project - Budget	1961
Box 1	Folder 33	Prejudice project - Questionnaire, appendix, summary data	1961
Box 1	Folder 34	Reviews of articles - Child Development Journal; Journal of Personality and Social Psychology	1964-1971, 1975
Box 1	Folder 35	Midterm study	1962
Box 1	Folder 36	Rosen report - Women's Role in Academic Achievement	1968
Box 1	Folder 37	Friedrich research - Women's Role in Academic Achievement	1966-1971
Box 1	Folder 38	Project literacy - Princeton conference	1964-1965
Box 1	Folder 39	Reading research materials	1960s
Box 1	Folder 40	Initial Teaching Alphabet (I.T.A.) Project	1965-1968
Box 1	Folder 41	Gray Oral Reading Tests	1963
Box 1	Folder 42	Social problems test - Friedrich
Box 1	Folder 43	Cornell - Lund report	1967-1969
Box 1	Folder 44	Department of Behavioral Sciences - Harvard School of Public Health	1967-1973
Box 1	Folder 45	Harvard Social Psychiatry Program - General	1967-1972
Box 1	Folder 46	Health opinion survey	1964-1965
Box 1	Folder 47	North Carolina Research in Social Psychiatry
Box 1	Folder 48	Social psychiatry	1966-1967
Box 1	Folder 49	Social psychiatry	1964-1965
Box 2	Folder 1	Changing intergroup attitudes - Kutner	1965
Box 2	Folder 2	Handbook of Social Psychology	1963-1978
Box 2	Folder 3	Handbook of Social Psychology - Article	1952-1962
Box 2	Folder 4	Newspaper articles on black Americans and racial prejudice	1960s
Box 2	Folder 5	"Stereotypes" - by John Harding
Box 2	Folder 6	Measurement of Prejudice - Harvard	1961
Box 6	Folder 11	Worksheets on morale- Harvard - Psychology Department	no date
Box 2	Folder 7	APA symposium - Paper - "The Conceptualization and Measurement of Prejudice"	1962
Box 2	Folder 8	Generalizations	1960s
Box 2	Folder 9	General factor questionnaire	1961-1971
Box 2	Folder 10	Prejudice - Resources, articles	1958-1966
Box 2	Folder 11	Measurement of prejudice - Research and articles	1958-1962
Box 3	Folder 12	APA paper - "How Old is Scientific Psychology?"	1984
Box 2	Folder 13	American Psychologist article - "The Crisis in German Psychology: 1796-1806"	1987
Box 2	Folder 14	Lecture notes on German sociology and psychology	1980s
Box 2	Folder 15	German psychologists	1973-1974
Box 2	Folder 16	Seminar on hermeneutics and scriptural interpretation	1961-1962
Box 2	Folder 17	AARP Tompkins County Chapter	1986-1995
Box 2	Folder 18	Aging field studies	1962-1992
Box 2	Folder 19	Allport, Gordon	1962-1988
Box 2	Folder 20	Aging proposal - "Developing Home Support Services for Rural Elderly"	1978
Box 2	Folder 21	Aging proposal	1983
Box 2	Folder 22	Concentrated care proposal	1983
Box 2	Folder 23	Diagnosis Related Group (DRG) mini-conference	1986
Box 2	Folder 24	Project reports - Concerning long term care	1982-1984
Box 2	Folder 25	Learning instruction and learning disabilities	1970-1975
Box 2	Folder 26	Lecture by Jules Sugarman	1970, 1973
Box 2	Folder 27	Compensatory preschool planning	1964-1965
Box 2	Folder 28	Influence techniques	1952-1962
Box 2	Folder 29	Parental discipline techniques	1961-1962
Box 3	Folder 30	Observational methods conference	1961-1962
Box 2	Folder 31	Observation records in the Nursery School	1954, 1960s
Box 2	Folder 32	Observation records of Betty	1930
Box 2	Folder 33	Biemiller observation records
Box 2	Folder 34	Montessori School - Ithaca	1968-1970
Box 2	Folder 35	Research in Human Ecology	1971-1985
Box 2	Folder 36	An experiment in training volunteer trainers	1948-1954
Box 2	Folder 37	Social psychology	1949-1968
Box 2	Folder 38	Work on oriented family support system	1978-1980
Box 2	Folder 39	Project proposals	1952-1987
Box 2	Folder 40	Behavioristic and humanistic approaches	1976-1977
Box 2	Folder 41	Explanations in psychology	1976-1995
Box 2	Folder 42	Prejudice monograph	1961-1971
Box 2	Folder 43	Reactions article and questionnaire	1961-1963
Box 2	Folder 44	Social problems questionnaire; battery of tests for measuring prejudice	1961
Box 2	Folder 45	Prejudice battery	1961
Box 2	Folder 46	Chein, I. - ATDP scales	1960
Box 2	Folder 47	Morse, North Carolina - Antisemitism
Box 2	Folder 48	New York University Attitude Measurement	1959-1976
Box 2	Folder 49	Prejudice research by others	1969-1971
Box 2	Folder 50	Psychology honors thesis - Schoener, Gary	1966
Box 2	Folder 51	Watson-Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal Scales	1927, 1952
Box 2	Folder 52	Project proposals in Child Development and Family Relations	1951-1955
Box 2	Folder 53	Proposals - For a Human Ecology quarterly, seminar for graduate students	1980-1981
		Alphabetical Order
Box 5	Folder 1	Archives - Cornell
Box 5	Folder 2	Gordon Allport - Symposium	1969-1987
Box 5	Folder 3	Affirmative Action	1982-1991
Box 5	Folder 4	American Psychological Association Symposium	1984
Box 5	Folder 5-7	American Psychological Association papers	1985-1988
Box 5	Folder 7A	American Psychological Association - Assembly for Scientific and Applied Psycholgoy	1980s
Box 5	Folder 8	American Psychological Association debate	1990
Box 5	Folder 9	Behavior trends	1960
Box 5	Folder 10	Bringham - Correspondence	1998
Box 5	Folder 11	Commission on Community Interrelations of the American Jewish Congress Material	1940s
Box 5	Folder 12	Commission on Community Interrelations of the American Jewish Congress Bibliography	1952
Box 5	Folder 13	Cherry article and correspondence	1998-2002
Box 5	Folder 14	Coping with Emergencies by the Rural Elderly	1989-1991
Box 5	Folder 15-16	Cornell crisis	1969-1999
Box 5	Folder 17	Doktorov - Correspondence	2003
Box 5	Folder 18	East Hill School	1966-1968
Box 5	Folder 19	Elderplan	1985-1987
Box 5	Folder 20	Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences	1963-1967
Box 5	Folder 21	Faculty Anti-War Group	1971-1994
Box 5	Folder 22	Gerald Gratch	1990
Box 5	Folder 23	Heidegger	1980-1985
Box 5	Folder 24	History and Philosophy of Science and Technology Program at Cornell	1985-1987
Box 5	Folder 25	History of psychology	1978-1985
Box 5	Folder 26	Holt, Bob	1950-1992
Box 5	Folder 27	Institute for Single Parent Family, Inc.	1986
Box 5	Folder 28	Meehl-correspondence	2003-2004
Box 5	Folder 29	Modeling medicaid
Box 5	Folder 30	Quality circles	1992
Box 5	Folder 31	Race relations	1968-1992
Box 5	Folder 32	Schuyler County	1990
Box 5	Folder 33	Pepinsky research	1959-1991
Box 5	Folder 34	Psychoanalysis	1986-1998
Box 5	Folder 35	Selltiz, Claire	1948-1999
Box 5	Folder 36	Sibulkin, Amy	1981-1987
Box 5	Folder 37	Social Psychology - History of Psychology at Cornell	1940s
Box 5	Folder 38	Stern symposium	1988
Box 5	Folder 39	Story Reading Project	1967-1968
Box 5	Folder 40	Students	1965
Box 5	Folder 41	Study of lives	1979-1981
Box 5	Folder 42	University faculty - Cornell	1990
Box 5	Folder 43	University senate	1970
Box 5	Folder 44	Wethington materials	1991-1992
Box 5	Folder 45	Whyte, Bill	1997
		Springdale Project
Box 6	Folder 12	Springdale - Correspondence, reports	1955-1961
Box 6	Folder 13	Activities interviews	1954
Box 6	Folder 14	Cornell Community Survey - Schedule C	no date
Box 6	Folder 15	Coordinating interviews	1954
Box 6	Folder 16	Staff materials	1953
Box 6	Folder 17	Dohrenuend analysis	1950s
Box 6	Folder 18	Field reports	1952-1953
Box 6	Folder 19	Social creativity projects	1950s
Box 6	Folder 20	Appendix A: Detailed item information	no date
		Series IV. Course Material
Box 3	Folder 1	Human Development and Family Studies (HEFS) Course 334B	1970s
Box 3	Folder 2	HDFS 218 - Adulthood and Aging - Literature searching	1988-1989
Box 3	Folder 3	HDFS 665 - Moral Development and Ego Development	1970s
Box 3	Folder 4	HDFS 665 - Moral Development and Ego Development	1980s
Box 3	Folder 5	HDFS 111 and 115 - Conception Through the Middle Childhood Years	1959-1988
Box 3	Folder 6	HDFS 360	1975
Box 3	Folder 7	HDFS 218	1989
Box 3	Folder 8	Child Development and Family Relations 210 - Child Guidance	1956-1966
Box 3	Folder 9	HDFS 380	1987
Box 3	Folder 10	Child Development and Family Relations 502	1968
Box 3	Folder 11	Child Development and Family Relations 502	1969
Box 3	Folder 12	HDFS 401	1971-1975
Box 3	Folder 13	HDFS 401 - Papers	1965-1970
Box 3	Folder 14	Child Development and Family Relations 210	1964-1965
Box 3	Folder 15	Child Development and Family Relations 317/318	1969
Box 3	Folder 16	HDFS Course 365	1976-1978
Box 3	Folder 17	HDFS Course 365 - Handouts	1979-1986
Box 6	Folder 6	HDFS Course 365	1983-1989
Box 3	Folder 18	Reading Lists for Graduate Students in Social and Personality Development	1969, 1974
Box 3	Folder 19	Lecture on Aging
Box 3	Folder 20	Course - "Innovations in Graduate Education"	1973
Box 3	Folder 21	Kendal-Skinner Seminar	1999
Box 3	Folder 22	Lyceum at Kendal
		Series V. Programs and Initiatives
Box 3	Folder 23	Family Art Program - "Effects upon Individual Creativity and Family Interaction of Participation in a Creative Expression Program"	1956-1961
Box 3	Folder 24	Family Art Program report	1959
Box 3	Folder 25	Cornell Story Reading Project - Reports	1968-1969
Box 3	Folder 26	Sample story reading session	1968
Box 3	Folder 27	Cornell Story Reading Project - Reports	1970
Box 3	Folder 28	Cornell Story Reading Project - Final report	1974
Box 3	Folder 29	Project Head Start	1957-1968
Box 3	Folder 30	Head Start Project	1965
Box 3	Folder 31	Head Start research	1966-1973
Box 3	Folder 32	Project Head Start - Research proposal	1965
Box 3	Folder 33	Parent interview schedule - Head Start	1966
Box 3	Folder 34	Parent interview schedule - Samples	1966
Box 3	Folder 35	Achievement test results in Ithaca School System	1970s
Box 3	Folder 36	Elementary teaching certification
Box 3	Folder 37	Henry St. John Project	1971
Box 3	Folder 38	Henry St. John School	1964-1967
Box 3	Folder 39	Henry St. John Report
Box 3	Folder 40	Report and tabulations - Bernstein	1965
Box 3	Folder 41	Program descriptions, Henry St. John and others - Connie Smith
Box 3	Folder 42	Preschool inventory
		Series VI. Department, College, and University Committees and Material
Box 6	Folder 1	Human Development and Family Studies (HDFS) Planning Steering Committee	1973-1986
Box 3	Folder 43	Human Development and Family Studies (HDFS) memos	1991-1992
Box 3	Folder 44	Child Development and Family Relations/Human Development and Family Studies historical sketch	1973-1975
Box 3	Folder 45	HDFS faculty meetings	1979-1983
Box 3	Folder 46	HDFS faculty meetings	1984-1989
Box 3	Folder 47	Human Ecology faculty meetings	1968-1969
Box 4	Folder 1	Human Ecology faculty meetings	1970-1973
Box 4	Folder 2	Human Ecology faculty meetings	1988-1990
Box 4	Folder 3	Colloquium presentations and comments by Harding	1967-1979
Box 4	Folder 4	Colloquium presentations and comments by Harding	1980-1990
Box 4	Folder 5	Female studies	1970-1971
Box 4	Folder 6	HDFS Departmental Council	1969-1972
Box 6	Folder 2	HDFS Conference on Research Perspectives in the Ecology of Human Development	August 1977
Box 6	Folder 2A	HDFS Seminar - 18th Century Psychology	1985
Box 4	Folder 7	Human Ecology Anniversary Symposium	1979
Box 3	Folder 8	College Study Committee	1962-1983
Box 4	Folder 9	College of Human Ecology long term planning	1968-1989
Box 4	Folder 10	New York State Report on School Integration	1969
Box 4	Folder 11	Perkins letter and Sproull memorandum	1966
Box 4	Folder 12	Prediction study - Donald Turner	1940-1979
Box 4	Folder 13	Donald Turner
Box 6	Folder 4	HDFS chair search	1977, 1981
Box 6	Folder 5	HDFS chair search	1989-1990
		Series VII. Publications
Box 4	Folder 14	Prejudice and the Norm of Rationality - Article	1963-1973
Box 4	Folder 15	New York University Research - Publications	1952-1960
Box 4	Folder 16	Additional publications	1938-1987
Box 4	Folder 17	Adolescence	1969-1986
Box 4	Folder 18	Allport's - The Nature of Prejudice - Revisions	1976
Box 4	Folder 19	PhD thesis, The Measurement of Civilian Morale, Harding	1943
Box 4	Folder 20	Publications by Harding	1940s
Box 4	Folder 20A	Publication by Harding-"How to Conduct a Community Self-Survey of Civil Rights" - Analysis Plans- Commission of Community Interrelations of the American Jewish Congress
Box 4	Folder 21	Publications by Harding	1950s
Box 4	Folder 22	Publications by Harding	1960s
Box 4	Folder 23	Publications by Harding	1970s-1980s
Box 4	Folder 24	Publications - Media Services contributions	1979-1987
Box 4	Folder 25	Humanism and Behaviorism: Dialogue and Growth, Ed. Wandersman, A.; Problems in Social Psychology: An Interdisciplinary Approach, Ed. Hulett, J.E.	1976, 1952
Box 4	Folder 26	Articles by Margaret Harding	1949-1970
Box 4	Folder 27	Autobiography by Jacob Harding	1877
Box 6	Folder 6	Dedication of Stephen Wise Congress House - published by American Jewish Congress	April 1951
Box 6	Folder 7	Dissertation by Donald Campbell "The Generality of a Social Attitude"	1947
Box 6	Folder 8	Dissertation by J. D. Goodchilds "Effects of Being Witty on Position in the Social Structure of a Small Group	1957
Box 6	Folder 9	Dissertation by Jane LaFargue "A Study to Determine Perceived Racial Prejudice and Follow-Up Preventive Child Health Care Among Low-Income Black Families"	1969
Box 6	Folder 10	Office of Institutional Studies "Analysis of Citizenship Recess"	Fall 1970

Contents

John Harding papers, 1927-2004. Collection Number: 23-13-3872

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Cornell University Library

John Harding papers, 1927-2004.
Collection Number: 23-13-3872

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library