Dr. David Allison

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It's one part joy and wonder, and it's one part rigor and hard-mindedness.

So I did my undergraduate at Vassar College.

And I'll just take a very brief pause there to mention two things about Vassar.

One is that it's a place really of spirited open-mindedness.

And so I really learned to be open-minded and to think about things wildly.

And I took a course as a sophomore called Human Emotion and Motivation.

And in it, we studied the work of Stanley Schachter.

It was built around his work, who was a psychology professor at Columbia at the time.

And he had a book called Emotion, Obesity, and Crime, in which he tied those ideas together.

And I always admired his experimental approach.

It was very novel and creative.

And so that got me hooked into obesity research.

That was the awe, the wonder, the joy, the thrill of discovery.

At least was perceived to be taking shape.

Ah, interesting.

Okay.

It was taking shape a few hundred years earlier at least.

So anyway, I got hooked in that.

The other thing about Vassar was it's very focused on writing.

So I wrote lots and lots of papers.

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