At 5:28 PM -0400 4/28/01, Kenneth M. Steele wrote:
>Hank:
>
>Before you go...
>
>Would you write a vignette that captures Kenneth Spence as a
>person, or researcher, or psychologist, or whatever you choose.
>I am always looking for stories that characterize the people I
>mention in class.
>
>I sent this to the list since I assume there are other faculty
>who do the same.
I can contribute a second hand one.
My graduate advisor (for a couple of years) was Edward Walker; a student of
Spence's.
He like to tell me about his last meeting with Spence, which ended in an
argument with Spence yelling down the hallway at him.
I eventually got the hint and found another advisor ;-)
A second hand Skinner vignette:
This is from Charlie (C.B. -- he had trouble settling on first names)
Ferster -- one of Skinner's first grad students at Harvard.
Skinner dislike his given first name (Burrhus -- wonder why ;-) and
preferred to be called Fred. He had, however, some problems getting his
grad students to loosen up.
Ferster wrote that one day he walked into Skinner's living room to find
Skinner setting there with a large sign hung around his neck saying "FRED"!
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