Value Dilemmas and Public Health: A Psychologist's Perspective

Abstract

We are gathered in memory of our valued colleague Andie Knutson, and I feel particularly honored to have been chosen to speak on this occasion. Andie was a few years older than I, but our lives shared many links. We both had had Social Science Research Council Demobilization Awards following World War II experience, and we had both been involved in the early days of public opinion research. After the war, Andie took his Ph.D. at Princeton with Hadley Cantril, whose holistic and phenomenological orientation in psychology was much influenced by his own doctoral mentor, Gordon Allport, who was also mine. (Our common intellectual heritage made me find Andie's research concerns especially congenial.) After directing research and evaluation and behavioral studies in the U.S. Public Health Service with distinction, Andie came to Berkeley in 1957 (just two years before me) to initiate the program in behavioral sciences in the School of Public Health. He joined the Institute of Human Development as Research Associate at the same time that I did. In 1970, a couple of years after I had left Berkeley, he served the Institute as Acting Director.