PSYC 31a Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Enculturation, Philistinism, Utopia
25 Apr 2017
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Brooklyn born, jewish (parents jewish immigrants from russia) Father was a fighter, a drinker and a womanizer. He called him ugly and stupid in public. Mother was worse saw her as cruel, ignorant, and hostile. She murdered 2 stray cats he brought home and bolted the refrigerator. Started with studying law to please his father. Changed to psych and transferred from cornell to university of wisconsin. Married his childhood sweetheart and had 2 kids. Dissertation studied the establishment of dominance in a monkey colony. Bf skinner thought his theory was beautiful". Thorndike worked with him at columbia. Refugees from nazi germany adler, wertheimer, horney, fromm, and most importantly ruth benedict (american anthropologist) Finally laughlin foundation (died the next year) Conventional , religious, introverted (also anxious, jealous, neurotic) High dominance females attracted to high dominance males, who were also very self-confident, aggressive, sure of everything, and superior in most things.
