ABSTRACT
In the 60 years since I set sail for Princeton, psychology has changed enormously, not only in its methods and concepts but also in its global reach. In the 1950s, experimental psychology was largely confined to North America and a relatively small number of European countries where it still flourished despite disruption from the Second World War. German psychology, extremely strong in the 19th and early 20th centuries, had suffered greatly following the rise of the Nazi party, which favoured an approach to psychology that was preoccupied with racial superiority, leading to the emigration of the Jewish scientists who formed a substantial part of its psychological elite. Since that time, European psychology has gradually recovered, while an experimental or cognitive approach to psychology is now relatively widespread throughout the world, although still most strongly concentrated in North America. The chapter that follows attempts to use my own travels as a way of reflecting these changes at the same time as conveying a little of the pleasure that I have derived from the opportunities my job has given me to travel, meet and work with a wide range of colleagues.
