Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 September 2022
Luck had a lot to do with my landing in social psychology – and landing where I did. As an undergraduate psychology major in the early 1960s with plans to become a Presbyterian minister, I took a course in social, although you probably wouldn’t recognize it as such. It was closer to a course in personality. The textbook was titled Social Psychology, but it was written by a clinical psychologist who collaborated with sociologists, and the instructor’s main research interest was Raymond Cattell’s 16PF, a self-report measure of personality dimensions or factors. I learned virtually nothing about experimental social psychology. I don’t think I knew such a discipline even existed. Blissfully ignorant, I headed to seminary.
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