A literature student switched careers to social psychology via intergroup topics

Evidence

Being a Spanish major who minored in history, economics, and Latin American studies, he was happily ensconced in a PhD program in romance literature and linguistics at UCLA when he first became infected with Brewer fever. While studying colonialism and oppression in nineteenth-century Latin American literature, he developed an interest in what he would later discover was the topic of intergroup relations. He was so fascinated by the topic, and Marilynn’s work, that he decided to leave his program, despite being ABD, to pursue social psychology full time. — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 91

Categorization

• XREF: The intellectual route from postcolonial literature to intergroup relations parallels my own interest in how literary studies touch social science questions.