Graduate School: Harvard

Abstract

While I am not sure how I managed to get into the doctoral program in experimental psychology at Harvard University, an exclusive program that only accepted three or four new students every year, once again Wolfgang Kohler may have played a role; and I know that my father had had some mutually respectful correspondence and interactions with Edwin Garrigues Boring, a prominent Harvard professor in what was now the department of experimental psychology. Just a short time before I got to Harvard, the earlier Department of Psychology had split into two separate departments: Experimental Psychology, and a new Department of Social Relations which encompassed social psychology, cultural anthropology, social psychology, and clinical psychology.