Alan Reifman
Department of Human Development & Family Studies
College of Human Sciences
Texas Tech University
Lubbock, Texas 79409-1230
U.S.A.
Home Page
Phone: (806) 742-3000, ext. 274
Fax: (806) 742-0285
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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:
 Fitzpatrick, J., Sharp, E. A., & Reifman, A. (2009). Midlife singles’ willingness to date partners with heterogeneous characteristics. Family Relations, 58, 121-133.
- Reifman, A. (2004). Measuring school spirit: A national teaching exercise. Teaching of Psychology, 31, 18-21.
- Reifman, A., Arnett, J. J., & Colwell, M. J. (2007, Summer). Emerging adulthood: Theory, assessment, and application. Journal of Youth Development, 2(1).
- 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.
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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