Early Life and Education
Damon grew up in Brockton, Massachusetts and attended public schools there. His mother Helen was a shoe designer. His father Philip served in the army signal corps in Germany during World War II and did not return from the war. Damon moved in with his mother's uncle Louis Meyers, who helped raised him and sent him to Phillips Academy and Harvard. After college, Damon received a doctorate in developmental psychology at U. C. Berkeley in 1974.
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