ABSTRACT

In the summer of 1980, I was working on a project at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale, where I had gone on a National Science Foundation postdoc almost two years before to work on social science and energy policy. When my postdoc ended after a year, I had managed to stay on by helping write research grants under the names of real Yale faculty who could hire me as a research associate. Early one afternoon, my colleague Jerry Gardner picked up the ringing phone and called me: “Paul,” he said, “it’s for you. It’s Elliot Aronson.”