ABSTRACT
Katherine Nelson started breaking away from the narrow research norms of psy-
chology before ever she knew they existed. She never wanted to become, never be-
came, and still does not want to be the standard psychologist, pinning down one
variable at a time at the .001 level, with the constricted results published in some
refereed journal of multi-adjectival “psychology.” Temperamentally, she resists
and has always resisted hunt-and-peck research, never satisfied until she gets
things in context. She never succumbed even when, somewhat inadvertently, she
became a graduate student at UCLA, where hunt-and-peck one-variable-at-a-time
used to be a plank in the department’s research program. And she has continued to
resist it ever since-to the great benefit of the emerging science of psychology.
