UA Psychology Department to Host Basowitz Lecture

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – The University of Alabama will host the annual Harold Basowitz Memorial Lecture at 7 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 11, featuring a University of Minnesota professor of psychology.

Dr. Mark Snyder’s presentation will be in 208 Gordon Palmer Hall on the UA campus. His lecture is titled “Personality, Motivation and Social Behavior: Structural and Functional Consideration.”

Snyder, who holds the McKnight Presidential Chair in Psychology at the University of Minnesota, has served as director of the Laboratory for Research in Social Relations at that university.

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