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Occurrence of the conference, Research Paradigms and Priorities in Social Psychology, held at Carleton University in July 1974, was perhaps inevitable—it appears now to be a symposium whose time had come. A number of different agents and agencies were implicated in the event, but if it had been held elsewhere, under different auspices, it doubtless would have had a similar focus and many of the same participants. Through a variety of minor accidents, supplemented by several major efforts, it grew from a fantasy first shared in Anne Tajfel’s kitchen to a reality held in a relatively new university in the national capital of Canada. As will be seen, this was an appropriate locale for a number of reasons.
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Strickland, L.H. (1976). Priorities and Paradigms. In: Strickland, L.H., Aboud, F.E., Gergen, K.J. (eds) Social Psychology in Transition. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-8765-1_1
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