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-Roger had 3 brothers; he was the one of the youngest. Even as a child Roger enjoyed school, his family was hit hard by the Depression. - he joined the Navy during his freshmen year at University of Michigan -While his time as an enlisted soldier he was accepted into the V-12 program. During the Battle of Okinawa he served as an ensign in the U.S. Navy, he spent a great deal of time on a boat; this is where he became interested in psychology. Roger was interested in many things; he was really interested in the linguistic study. He first started to read the book Behaviorism by John B. Watson; and later read other books by B. F. Skinner. These books ultimately encouraged him to go into the field of psychology; the books acted as his mentors. -Hi dissertation was focused on Authoritarianism of personality; which was a really popular topic after WWII. “1957, I finished my dissertation, which was on authoritarianism and personality rigidity. Authoritarianism, assessed with a paper-and-pencil instrument called the “F Scale” was the most popular topic in social psychology in the 1950’s (Brown. 1996. pg.19)” -During his time at the University of Michigan, Roger started to experiment with his sexuality; he learned how to meet other gay men by a system they had devised; after he learned this system he met a man named Alber-Al. Roger was still very self conscious about what others will think of him if he were to be in fact gay. - Roger meet women named Marian Sanders; Roger became in love with the idea of being in love with a women. Marian had a sister Joan, the sisters, Al and Roger would double date; but the real lover’s were Al and Roger. The girls didn’t realize that Al and Roger were lovers; Marian would often give hints to Roger that she thought more of him and would like to take their relationship to the next level. One night while they were having dinner Roger put on some music and Marian made a remark that didn’t quit sit well with Roger; he later thought that this was the breaking point and he no longer considered marriage and going straight (Brown 1966. pg.25). 40 years later Marian and Roger remained good friends; Roger and Al would later start their 40 year long partnership. -After he published his book he really dove into the study of Linguistic Development of Children. -He was then asked to teach a Social Psychology course at Harvard. Throughout his time teaching Social Psychology Roger became rather interested in the subject and started to write his own book on the matter. He published his first book in 1965 -this book dealt with the first two stages of how a child learns their primary language. He found that there are five stages that are not chronically shown by the age of the child but by the mean of length utterance (MLU). MLU means how many numbers of morphemes a toddler can pronounce in a certain stage of development  . -In 1976 Roger had written a paper on “Flashbulb Memories”; part of his research was done on the JFK assassination because it held such an emotional response to nearly everyone in the United States. Roger realized that it wasn't just the action; it had to be a high emotional memory for someone to remember what had happened and what they were doing at that exact moment. Roger used his theory on the JFK assassination in his textbook. -This textbook has been said to read at a high difficulty; other professors would read it to further educate themselves on topics such as “Flashbulb Memories” and “Tip of the Tongue Phenomenon”. -Some time after 1985 Al was diagnosed with lung cancer. Brown was then diagnosed with prostate cancer. While both of them were sick, their relationship started to change, they started to drift apart. Roger buried his partner in 1989 in Mount Auburn Cemetery.