Remembering Donn Byrne: December 19, 1931-August 10, 2014

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Kabir (1440–1518), the Indian mystic, asked, “Given both Guru (teacher) and Govind (God) standing in front of you, whom should you bow to first?” Kabir counselled, “All the glory should go to your Guru for showing the right way to Govind.” I then wholeheartedly bow to my esteemed Guru, Donn Byrne, a renowned personality and social psychologist. In 1970, I had just come to the United States for my doctoral degree from Ball State University. From my Fulbright orientation programme in Tucson, Arizona, I wrote a letter to Donn, requesting that he train me. Swiftly cutting through administrative hurdles, he ensured my transfer from Ball State to Purdue University. For that intervention, I am deeply grateful and feel blessed. I came to know Donn as a teacher, a scholar and eventually a lifelong well-wisher.

Publication Date

1-1-2014

Publisher

Association for Psychological Science

Keywords

Biography, Social psychology, Personality, Human sexuality

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