“We’d had disagreements, we’d been mad at each other and made up as collaborators, so we already had a dynamic where we didn’t have to be walking on eggshells around each other,” Martinez-Conde says.It was a portent of things to come: Over the next 47 years they would spend much of their time collecting bones together. This is where she met her future husband and team member, Phillip Zimbardo.
Previously, Stephanie Cacioppo had been directing labs and teaching at the University of Geneva and at Syracuse University.
If this is the real you, I’m not sure I want to have any more to do with you,” Zimbardo recalls. When she … She received her A.B., magna cum laude, in Social Relations from Harvard-Radcliffe College in 1967, and her Ph.D. in Psychology from Stanford University in 1971. Christina MASLACH of University of California, Berkeley, CA (UCB) | Read 123 publications | Contact Christina MASLACH. He proposed they give romance a try.He was studying loneliness and isolation. “I couldn’t understand how someone I thought I knew well, who I trusted and loved, would not see any problems with this,” she says.They also share the experience of being people of color in an elite academic institution and in a field that is overwhelmingly white.
According to National Science Foundation data analyzed by the Committee on Maximizing the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering, in 2008 between 75 and 80 percent of women and between 45 and 50 percent of men in physical sciences, engineering and mathematics are married to someone with at a bachelor’s or higher level degree in science; in biological sciences more than 60 percent of women and about half of men were married to another scientist.Support our award-winning coverage of advances in science & technology.Within weeks they were a couple, although a long-distance one.
“We always had this attitude that marriage is irrelevant—so many people get divorced anyway, it’s just become a tradition without real meaning,” Anderson says. In fact, it would count against me because people would assume he was the author, not me,” Maslach says.Only after she threatened to end the relationship was Zimbardo shaken enough to reassess the experiment and his role in it, which he began to realize had shifted from observer to unwitting participant.
Christina Maslach is Professor of Psychology at the University of California at Berkeley.
She has conducted research in a number of areas within social and health psychology. The social and legal approval of a relationship makes it have meaning.”Some people speak the same language at home as they do in the office, even if the office is filled with microarrays and next-generation sequencing machines. “I think in the back of our minds it might have been a possibility for awhile,” she admits. I couldn’t see what was wrong with it,” he says.In the meantime they are happy in Ushuaia, where they are absorbed in their work and in the house they are building, and are exploring options for adopting children. He was so different. But their marriage did not allow Valenzuela to spend more time with Anderson in the U.S. because the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which prevented same-sex couples from applying for green cards after marriage and was still the law of the land. “Once she saw I could bust moves, it was over,” Kydd says.Living in such anxiety was unsustainable, and so they decided their future was in Argentina. It does. “We’ve also learned to walk away from the desk and enjoy each other, because when we return to the desk, we get a lot more work done,” John Cacioppo says.At first, Zimbardo and his colleagues teased Maslach about being a softie, downplaying her objections.