The Researcher's Life Jane Halonen, James Madison University and
Stephen F. Davis, Emporia State University Research is a mental
groping by starlight towards the daylight of clearer vision. It
begins in the slow laborious search for facts in a narrow field.
As material accumulates, relations appear. The mass ferments,
and finally organizes itself into the semblance of a new living
idea. --Harry Kirke Wolfe, May 29, 1918 Harry Kirke Wolfe
founded his teaching career in psychology on the principle that
the training of the mind would be served best by actively
involving his students in psychological research. The consummate
teacher, Wolfe clearly understood the interrelation between
teaching and research, an emphasis we appreciatively emulate in
this volume. It is the preparation of those individuals who
choose the rewarding path of careers in psychological research
(and those who will be teaching them) that we had in mind when
we conceived the idea for this book. Therefore, we thought it
would be helpful to bri