The studies reported in chapter 1 illustrate work done during my graduate student years in experimental psychology at Fordham and Yale and while switching from experimental to social psychology during a postdoctoral year at the University of Minnesota. The immunization studies reported here in chapter 2 illustrate work done during my next shimmy up the greasy academic pole as an up-or-out non-tenured faculty member at Yale and Illinois. After my postdoc year at the University of Minnesota's Laboratory for Research in Social Relations (where I enjoyed working with Leon Festinger, Stan Schachter, Hank Riecken, May Brodbeck, Herb McCloskey, Andy Papandreou, John Darley, Sr., and others) I spent the 1955 summer months at the University of Michigan in the SSRC Advanced Workshop for Mathematics in the Social Sciences. I then returned to Yale as an instructor, now accompanied by my wife (and later collaborator) Claire, whom I had met during my graduate student years at Yale. Our first collaboration produced three children, Jim, Anne, and Steve, in two and a half years.

WISDOM FROM AND FOR THE EARLY FACULTY YEARS

Life as a Nontenured Faculty Member

The Yale Department of Psychology to which I returned had a cast of characters notably different from the players I had left just a year before. The change was confined to the untenured ranks, but that is what mattered to a junior faculty member in those days, when untenured and tenured tiers were less interactive than now.