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In this chapter, the author describes his background in psychology, from his early psychoanalytic period (in which he learned that scientific inquiry can include topics that have human interest or public policy implications), his education at Princeton and work with mentor Hadley Cantril on social movements, his consideration of the consequences of research and his interest in transactional psychology. He notes that his experiences led him to the belief that enlightened social psychologists—such as he was trying to become—ought to be consistently aiming at reconstructions of reality as it is experienced and reported by the individuals they study. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)