Lee Ross, expert in why we misunderstand each other, dies at 78
National News Lee Ross, expert in why we misunderstand each other, dies at 78 Personal humiliation inspired Lee Ross' greatest insight. by NYTimes News Service Jun. 16 2021 @ 6:23pm Personal humiliation inspired Lee Ross' greatest insight. In 1969, when he defended his graduate dissertation at Columbia University, a committee of faculty members let loose a downpour of esoteric questions. Ross had done a study of how perceptions differed under bright and dim light. What, one inquisitor asked, was the wavelength of the dim light, calculated in the infinitesimal unit of measurement known as angs...
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