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36 - Tales of a Devoted but Disillusioned Party Crasher

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 September 2022

Saul Kassin
Affiliation:
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York
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I came to psychology in a roundabout and accidental manner. I was a math whiz in high school and chose Princeton because their math department was rated best in the country. My resident advisor pushed me to take an assortment of very different courses, and soon I realized that my math course was the dullest. At Princeton I also met some true math geniuses and quickly realized I was not one of them. Those being the hippie days, I decided I would study the grand issues of religion and philosophy. I spent a year in foreign study at Universität Heidelberg studying philosophy. While there, I happened to read some of Freud’s writings on morality, which impressed me. Instead of analyzing the concepts of right and wrong, as a philosopher would, he relied on data, as to how morality emerged in early societies and how children learned right vs. wrong. Exciting!

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Pillars of Social Psychology
Stories and Retrospectives
, pp. 308 - 316
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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