Lois Meek Stolz psychology case interviews, 1957-1958.

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Lois Meek Stolz psychology case interviews, 1957-1958.

Transcripts of interviews and summary files from interviews with 41 sets of parents from the Palo Alto area regarding their children and their child rearing practices. Each family had two parents and one or more children under the age of 9. The interview transcripts were done in a way that preserved the anonymity of the interviewees. After an initial interview together, the parents were interviewed separately, ranging from 1 to 6 hours each. The information gathered in this study was used in her book INFLUENCES ON PARENT BEHAVIOR (1967).

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Stolz, Lois Meek, 1894-1984

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Lois Meek Stolz earned her A.B. at George Washington University in 1921 and her Ph.D. at Columbia University in 1925. She served as education secretary of the AAUW and taught at Columbia prior to 1938, when she married Dr. Herbert R. Stolz and moved to California. During World War II she was the Director of Child Service Centers for the Kaiser Shipyards in Portland. Stolz joined the Stanford faculty in 1947 as professor of psychology. After becoming emerita in 1957, she worked on the Communicati...