Dr. Frances Aboud - Academics

Frances was disappointed by her first university psychology course. She found the instructor uninteresting and slow, "(s)o I stayed away from class and read the text and other psychology books sold at the bookstore." Interested in politics and social psychology ("as most students were in the 1960s"), Frances enjoyed doing social psychology experiments on rats and people, and was good at it. It was no surprise then, that she was accepted to all three graduate schools she applied to, favoring McGill because it seemed the "most safe" in terms of politics.

Her graduate work focused on ethnic relations, a topic she would return to in later years when examining the way children interact with one another.