Alan Reifman

Institution Texas Tech University Current Position Professor Highest Degree Ph.D. in Social Psychology from University of Michigan, 1989 Research Interests Aggression Applied Social Psychology Attitudes Close Relationships Group Processes Health Interpersonal Processes Political Psychology Psychology and Law Research Methods/Assessment Laboratory Home Page Social Networks and College Drinking Blog Emerging Adulthood Courses Taught Introductory Statistics (Graduate) Research Methods (Undergrad) Structural Equation Modeling (Graduate)   Alan Reifman Department of Human Development & Family Studies College of Human Sciences Texas Tech University Lubbock, Texas 79409-1162 U.S.A. Home Page Phone: (806) 742-3000, ext. 274 Fax: (806) 742-0285 My research continues in two somewhat overlapping areas: (1) Studying college-student drinking, with a focus on social influences (e.g., social networks, peers' drinking). Most recently, I have analyzed data from college students and their same-age non-college-bound peers in an attempt to isolate risk factors unique to the college environment. (2) Developing a measure of the experience of going through "Emerging Adulthood," a life stage between adolescence and full adulthood. The measure that I have developed with my colleagues is called the IDEA: Inventory of the Dimensions of Emerging Adulthood. See my Emerging Adulthood blog. A few other websites of mine that may be of interest to readers include: The Hot Hand, providing statistical and probabilistic analyses of sports streakiness. Questionnaire Instrument Compendium, providing links to online, public-domain measures of many psychosocial constructs. Reminiscences on 1980s University of Michigan social psychology Social Psych Lyrics, featuring lyrics I've written about famous social-psychological concepts and studies, which may be sung to the tunes of well-known songs. Explanations and examples of the concepts are also provided. Journal Articles: Reifman, A., Watson, W.K., & McCourt, A. (2006). Social networks and college drinking: Probing processes of social influence and selection. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 32, 820-832. School Spirit Study Group (A. Reifman, organizer). (2004). Measuring school spirit: A national teaching exercise. Teaching of Psychology, 31, 18-21. Other Publications: Wampler, K. S., Reifman, A., & Serovich, J. M. (2005). Meta-analysis in family therapy research (pp. 318-338). In D. H. Sprenkle & F. P. Piercy (Eds.), Research methods in family therapy (2nd Ed.). NY: Guilford.

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