For over 40 years, my dad has been teaching psychology at Mississippi State. Dr. Thomas Carskadon’s section of General Psychology can be one of the toughest to get into, despite the fact that it’s held in a 300-person auditorium in Dorman Hall. “Dr. C” is appreciated for his entertaining stories that always, in some way, relate to the subject matter, and I got to have the experience of taking his class when I was a freshman at MSU.
However, despite my knowledge that he knows what he’s talking about after decades of teaching, publishing and researching psychological matters, I disagreed with him on one particular subject of his lectures.