ABSTRACT
This chapter explores to give the reader a sense of who Benton J. Underwood was, as his students and his colleagues saw him, no easy task. It often uses the reports of Underwood's students and his colleagues, as they describe their memories of Ben as a mentor, colleague, and friend. Ben's memories of the summers spent in the lab analyzing and writing up data include the noise of the Frieden calculators; the hours spent checking and analyzing thousands of numbers; the coffee; the writing, talking, and arguing over various interpretations; and Ben's cigarettes. After Ben's nomination for the American Psychological Foundation distinguished teaching award was completed and sent in to the APA. Ben Underwood was awarded the American Psychological Foundation Award for Distinguished Teaching in psychology. His Experimental Psychology and the revision helped define the field of experimental psychology in the years after World War II.
