Casual friendship and shared circumstance can launch long-term scientific collaboration

Evidence

The renewal was stimulated by another good stroke of fortune when I met a brilliant undergraduate student at UCSB named Linnda Caporael. A returning student and, like me, a single mom (with a son the same age as my daughter), Linnda and I became good friends. We shared a house in Santa Barbara during the time she worked on her doctoral degree in developmental psychology at UCSB, and many wine-fueled dinnertime conversations about human nature and “just-so” stories eventually led to our long-term collaborative efforts to bring an evolutionary perspective to psychology based on understanding humans as a group-living species (e.g., Caporael & Brewer, 1991; Brewer & Caporael, 2006). — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 2501

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