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... Pain helped me Lose my youth and Find some perspective
(Snyder, 2005)
I first met Rick Snyder in 1972 in the backseat of a car riding to an airport in a Midwest city. He had been interviewing for an assistant professor position in clinical psychology at a local university, while I had been interviewing for a position in that program's social-personality program. Rick was a gallant young scholar, filled with aspirations for his career and the field of psychology. Those aspirations were realized to an amazing degree. My association with Rick were renewed over time in various contexts, but notably those involving efforts in the late 1970s that both of us made to bringing back to the attention of psychology the work of pioneering psychologist Fritz Heider, who then was in his 80s living with his wife Grace just down the hill from the Department of Psychology in Lawrence. Fritz still had much to offer about the very beginnings of the cognitive revolution in psychology, and his role in it (as in creating attribution theory). A variety of conferences, talks, and writings ensued from this period of time further documenting his ideas and thoughts about the field. Rick's own kindness to Fritz and Grace, especially in involving them in KU activities, was regularly noted by Grace and Fritz before they died.
Then, as readers of this journal may appreciate, Rick made this journal into a very respectable outlet for the diverse contributions of social-personality, clinical-counseling, and related areas of psychology starting when he became Editor in 1988.1 founded the journal in 1983, with a lot of help from people including Rick, Robert A. Baron, Gifford Weary, Sharon Brehm, and Editor-in-Chief at Guilford Publications Seymour Weinstein. But it was Rick's breadth and ingenuity as Editor that led to the boon times in the journal's respectability in the 1990s that Jim Maddux has succeeded very well in maintaining in recent years.
Rick's 34-year career is a brilliant landscape of...