Follow me as I journey across the world to converse with influential Psychologists
Dr. Tony Greenwald grew up among some legends. His father, the much renowned Bernard Green, composed, arranged, and conducted music for television, radio, and movies including Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows (a brilliant comedy series that helped to launch the careers of Mel Brooks, Neil Simon, Carl Reiner and others) and Mister Peepers (featuring Tony Randall, Wally … Continue reading The Explicit Cognitions of Dr. Tony Greenwald
From sea to shining sea: we have now driven well over 6000 mi/10,000 km on our meandering Journey to Psychology and have reached the beautiful city of Seattle. Our route has taken us through major metropolitan areas in Boston, Toronto, Montreal, and Chicago, and through small towns in Wisconsin, Ohio, New Hampshire, the Dakotas, Wyoming, … Continue reading Side note: Northwest Passage!
In some circles, Dr. Ed Diener is known as Dr. Happiness -- a moniker bestowed from his life's work exploring, testing, and determining how ones actions, thoughts, and circumstances relate to subjective well-being (SWB aka happiness). Dr. Diener is one of the most influential figures in Psychology for his tremendous research contributions, the charitable contributions … Continue reading The Happy Tale of Dr. Ed Diener
The mileage is amounting quickly now. At the start of this journey we moved leisurely and purposefully through Massachusetts and up the coast to Montreal to find time to meet with the many influential scholars who found a home in those areas. We made our way through Toronto, down to St. Louis, up to Chicago. … Continue reading Side Note: Rapid City Redux
Dr. Morton Ann Gernsbacher met with me at the airport on a Saturday evening. She was just returning from a visit to one university and looking at a heavy week of activities in the week to come. Despite the hectic schedule and the constant demands on her time, she wanted to be a part of … Continue reading Dr. Morton Ann Gernsbacher MacGyver’s her Way
My first study in graduate school was on echolocation: that fantastic ability of many bats, dolphins, and humans to use auditory signals to navigate through a complex environment. With Larry Rosenblum as my mentor, I studied human echolocation among humans who had typical visual abilities. To accomplish these studies we would blindfold our participants and … Continue reading Side note from the road: How to Think Like a Bat
Dr. Jenny Saffran is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin -- Madison whose research has been influential in topics including the development of language, music, and more general cognitive capacities. Here she introduces herself: An interest in science and the processes of communication were very much a part of Dr. Saffran's early … Continue reading Dr. Jenny Saffran and a Destiny in Psychology
There is a a famous trail that runs through Spain to the Cathedral de Santiago de Compostela known as the Camino de Santiago, aka "The Way of St. James." Every year thousands of people walk, bike, or even drive the approximately 500 mi/800 km of this route from the Pyrenees in the south of France … Continue reading Side note: Being Still while in Transit
If you had asked people what Gary Wells was up to when he was a kid, they might've answered "No good." He's come a long way from humble beginnings to becoming one of the most influential psychologists in the world for his work on eye-witness identification, police practices interfacing with crime witnesses and suspect … Continue reading The Case of Dr. Gary Wells
Quick update from the road: So far we've traveled over 3,000 miles/5,000 km, with stays in more than a dozen different cities, and I've spoken with 22 influential Psychologists (and two more planned for this week)! It's been an eye-opening start that has included conversations with some amazing people. While the conversations are amazing, I … Continue reading GPS update: Into the Middle
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