In my almost 4 decades of being a social psychologist, few people have asked me why I decided on a career in social psychology. Maybe it’s not too interesting to find out why people choose a career, maybe there’s something else to discuss, or maybe the topic never occurred to the people with whom I […]
Melissa told me the story of why she chose social psychology not long after we met. The number of social psychologists are but a fraction of the total number of psychologists and are not what one usually thinks of when thinking of psychologists. Clinical psychologists, like TV’s Dr. Bob Hartley (Bob Newhart) are much more […]