ABSTRACT
The psychology syllabus was both broad and idiosyncratic since each College of the University of London could decide for itself what was taught. The staff in the Durham Psychology Department in 1954 were not an obvious fit with Henri Tajfel developing interests in social psychology. Ravetz remembered something else about Henri at Durham which, with the benefit of hindsight, seems somewhat prophetic. Henri may not have been very happy living in Durham but he certainly made the most of the experience professionally. One of Henri’s contemporaries and close friends at Birkbeck was Douglass Price-Williams, later to become a famous cross-cultural psychologist. Henri also used to inveigle Hurwitz into watching matinee performances at a cinema in Belsize Park. Inspired by the Dukes and Bevan study on the overestimation of the weight of jars of sweets, Henri conducted four experiments that were methodologically more sophisticated and also promised to offer a more general explanation of the effects of value on perception.
