I was a professor of psychology at Cornell, Texas, Bryn Mawr, South Florida, and Hawaii, but I also held visiting appointments in Germany, Japan, Argentina, New Zealand, Israel, Italy, Australia, Canada, and Yugoslavia.
My tendency for blunt and scathing criticism might make some wonder whether my name was as much a personal description as a surname.
I worked for and received a letter of recommendation from famed theoretical physicist Robert Oppenheimer, “father of the atomic bomb.” My professional mentors included a warden, a Dall, an industrial psychologist, and a Nobel Laureate.
Pete Seeger’s album of folk songs, “Birds, Beasts, Bugs, and Fishes(Little and Big)” could also be a title of my research program on the comparative study of learning.
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