UA Psychology Department to Host Annual Harold Basowitz Memorial Lecture

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — The University of Alabama psychology department will host the annual Harold Basowitz Memorial Lecture on Friday, March 11, at 7 p.m. in 208 Gordon Palmer featuring guest speaker Dr. Marvin Zuckerman who will discuss, “Sensation Seeking and Risky Behavior: Drinking, Drugs, Smoking and Sex.”

Zuckerman is professor emeritus in the department of psychology at the University of Delaware and remains active in teaching and research.

Zuckerman received his doctoral degree in clinical psychology from New York University. He is co-founder of the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences for which he served as president in 1985. Zuckerman developed the trait-state concept and its application in tests for affect measurement. He has also published extensively in the area of sensation seeking and the biological basis for such behaviors as risk taking, alcohol and drug use, sexual behavior and social attitudes.

The Harold Basowitz Memorial Lecture is sponsored by the UA department of psychology in memory of Basowitz, who came to UA in 1940 and remained until called into military service. Basowitz returned to Tuscaloosa in 1946 and received his undergraduate degree from UA in 1947.