ABSTRACT
I began my graduate work with Elliot Aronson at the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1982. His reputation as an uncompromising taskmaster had preceded our acquaintance and I was full of more bravado than bravery, but once I could cross the threshold of his office on steady legs, I quickly fell into his orbit. I enrolled in his experimental methods seminar, served more than once as a teaching assistant and section leader in his wildly popular introductory social psychology course, and we collaborated on research. We have become lifelong friends, due in part to our commitment to teaching and learning in their myriad guises, from lectures, to seminars, to one-on-one research collaborations with colleagues and students.
