ABSTRACT
I was an adolescent of the 1960s. My college years in the late 1960s and early 1970s were during a time of considerable political unrest about the Vietnam War and civil rights for minorities in the United States. As an undergraduate at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, I was involved in some political activities and concerned with university and national civil rights policies, as well as the effects of the ongoing Vietnam War on both Americans and the Vietnamese. Given the emphasis on sociopolitical topics at the time, perhaps it is not surprising that I became interested in political attitudes and why others' needs and welfare are salient in the political thinking of some individuals but not others.
