PSYCH 3AC3 Chapter Notes -Golden Fleece Award, Elaine Hatfield, Barry Goldwater
14 Oct 2014
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The golden fleece award: love"s labors (almost) lost. The golden fleece award: love"s labours (almost) lost. In 1975, i and two of my colleagues at the university of wisconsin, mary. Utne o"brien and jane traupmann pillemer, were collaborating on a major research program. We were attempting to determine the extent to which the major cognitive and emotional theories could tell us something about the nature of passionate love and sexual desire. We had a bit of money to work with since the national science foundation had awarded us a tiny grant designed to allow us to investigate the importance of social justice and equity in romantic exchanges. Senator william proxmire, who awarded me what came to be a vastly publicized golden fleece award, claiming i was fleecing taxpayers with my unneeded scientific research. I was not without supporters: senator barry goldwater and three. University of chicago nobel prize winners came to my defense in the new york.
