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40 - My Career in Social Psychology

More Than Just Fun and Games

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 September 2022

By
Rupert Brown
Edited by
Saul Kassin
Saul Kassin
Affiliation:
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York
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Summary

My social psychology journey began in 1968 when I went to Edinburgh University as an undergraduate. As some may remember, that year was also memorable for other reasons. It was the year that Martin Luther King, that great civil rights leader, was assassinated. It was the year that Enoch Powell, a Conservative British politician, made a hateful speech apocalyptically predicting that unchecked immigration would lead to civil unrest and bloodshed on the streets of Britain. It was the year when “les evénements” in Paris threatened to upset the established order in several European countries. And it was the year when invading Soviet tanks brought the nascent Prague Spring to a swift and brutal end in Czechoslovakia.

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Pillars of Social Psychology
Stories and Retrospectives
 , pp. 341 - 349
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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