De mi vida como psicologo

Well known Belgian psychologist Prof. Marc Richelle offers here an autobiographical presentation of his career both as a psychologist and as a researcher and university professor in the field.He has occupied for many years the chair of experimental psychology at Liège University, in Belgium, where he also created a laboratory, around which an important group of researchers has grown.
In his autobiography he acknowledges his debts toward his most infl uential masters: Jean Paulus
(Liège), André Rey and Jean Piaget (Geneva) and B. F. Skinner (Harvard). In his career, topics
such as acculturation and cross-cultural psychology, psychology of time, psychopharmacology
and, in recent years, language, cognition and consciousness have received signifi cant attention.
In many cases he stressed the opportunity of using the operant behavioral techniques, and has
been one of the psychologists that introduced the operant analysis of behavior in Europe.
He has also dedicated considerable efforts to develop some international programs that enforced
the cultural and academic exchanges of European students and researchers. Special attention
is here paid to recent Spanish psychological developments, largely based on his fi rst hand
knowledge of them.