Canberra University College/Australian National University: research and teaching, 1955-78

Containers:

Box 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14

Component identifier:

Series 4

Content Summary:

Material reflecting Gibb's research at the Department of Psychology, Canberra University College, in the late 1950s commences with an additional 'teacher behaviour' project work, utilising some of the earlier Dartmouth data and findings, and comparing the responses of Dartmouth and Canberra University College student populations. Project material comprises questionnaire data and scales, some correspondence relating to data processing, notes, drafts and copies of Gibb's summary paper, 'Teacher Behaviour - Here and There', published in the December 1957 number of the Australian Journal of Psychology.

Gibb's large (200 families were used) Family Description Project focused on the family as a small group for analysis. Data, analyses, reports and research notes are extant.

The series also includes correspondence and related notes contributed by Gibb in relation to articles written for a number of journals and organisations on 'group dynamics', human relations in public administration, industrial social psychology. Included here is a technical report 'Game Interactions with "Humans" and "Machines" and Their Relations to Tactical Behaviour and Success' Gibb priuced for the U.S. government in 1963. This is followed by a number of items relating to the 'International Conference on Social-Psychological Research in Developing Countries', held in Imbada, Nigeria, December 1966 to January 1967, which Gibb attended.

Following the research sequence, the series includes lecture notes, readings, collected publications, handbooks and projects associated with Gibb's Psychology and extension courses, c. 1956-77. Miscellaneous notes on I.Q. measurement and other topics, a number of article drafts and reprints and correspondence associated with Gibb's appointment and conditions complete this series

Immediate source of acquisition:

Gibb's wife Margaret donated the papers to the Library in 1994.

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