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Michael Corballis interview

In his new book, the Auckland psychologist is whimsically subversive about advertising, homeopathy, some orthodox medicine, and universities as money-generators.

By Diana Wichtel In Books

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19th November, 2011
We meet at Michael Corballis’s office in the University of Auckland’s Human Sciences Building. It’s small, spartan and has a fluorescent tube that flickers fitfully. The Prof doesn’t seem to notice, but it makes me feel like a poorly trained lab rat in some sort of behavioural experiment. It turns out we may have a rat in common. When, in the late 60s, I was making a poor fist of Psychology 1 (I’d imagined a cross between an encounter group and a Woody Allen movie, not graphs and rodents), Corballis was in the university’s Psychology Department, before leaving for McGill University ...

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