ANN ARBOR— Stanley E. Seashore, a former research
scientist at the University of Michigan Institute for
Social Research (ISR) and professor emeritus of psychology,
died Oct. 7 at age 84 in Bloomington, Minn.

One of the founders of the organizational psychology
program at the U-M, Seashore served as mentor or adviser to
more than 70 doctoral students. At the ISR, he directed
approximately 30 research projects, on topics including the
quality of work life, the social psychology of work groups,
management in industry and government, and social
indicators.

Born Sept. 4, 1915, in Wahoo, Neb., Seashore received
his B.A. degree in economics from the University of Iowa in
1937 and his M.A. degree in anthropology from the
University of Minnesota in 1939. For the next 11 years, he
worked for a major steel corporation, then a prominent
management consulting firm where he became increasingly
interested in organizational structures and change.

In 1953, he received a Ph.D. degree in social
psychology from the University of Michigan, and joined the
ISR Survey Research Center and the U-M Department of
Psychology. He served as president of the organizational
psychology division of the American Psychological
Association (APA), and served on the APA committee that
wrote the first code of research ethics.

Preceded in death by his wife, Eva, Seashore is
survived by sisters, Sylvia Koerber and Selma Matthias;
daughters, Karen (Thomas) Louis and Christine (Gregory)
Ludlow; and by grandchildren, Margit and Erica Seashore
Louis and Brinton and Jamie Seashore-Ludlow.