Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 September 2022
As an undergraduate at Harvard, I thought I would become a physicist. I took some great courses in physics, chemistry and math, and did okay in them, but I found it all too dry (and maybe I wasn’t good enough in math to pursue physics). Instead, I graduated in 1958 with a major in social relations, which at the time was a combination of anthropology, sociology, and psychology. The psychology faculty were mostly at the social science end of the field, having split from the “hard” psychology department that was focused mainly on psychophysics and Skinnerian learning. The one exception was Dick Solomon who was also in social relations and taught a terrific course on learning.
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