In the sixty years since I took my first psychology course, much has changed. Wars have begun and ended, the US population has nearly doubled, and fifty new countries appear on redrawn world maps. Nor has social psychology stood still. The Society of Experimental Social Psychology was founded in 1965; the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology followed suit the next year (later dropping Experimental from its name). In 1974, the Society of Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) was formed, building on the history of Division 8 of the American Psychological Association. The Association for Psychological Science (originally the American Psychological Society) came into being in 1988, and hosted the initial meetings of SPSP that evolved into an independent convention. These six decades establish the context for my development as a social psychologist on a path shaped by both chance and choice.