Anecdote & Evidence

About the Book

In Anecdote and Evidence Richard Katzev reflects on the search for place in settings that include a person's neighborhood, favorite periodicals and family recollections. His essays on letter writing, online communication, and urban experiences skillfully blend recent social research with memoir. He also traces the evolution of his work in psychology and explains why the current direction of the field led him to the study of literary arts. Whether the subject is the effect of reading literature on personality, the relationship between ideas and action or current environmental problems, this collection of personal essays is at once lucid and enlightened.

About the Author

Richard Katzev is President of Public Policy Research (www.publicpolicyresearch.net), a social and environmental research firm in Portland Oregon. He has served as Professor of Psychology at Reed College and has also taught at Stanford and Princeton universities. He has held visiting appointments at Princeton's Center for Energy and Environmental Studies and the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University California, Davis. Katzev's research interests include behavior change, resource conservation, and social influence. His current work focuses on alternative transportation and he was a co-founder of CarSharing Portland (www.flexcar.com), the first car sharing organization in the United States.