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John Hurley Flavell (born August 9, 1928, in Rockland, Massachusetts) is an American developmental psychologist specializing in children's cognitive development who serves as Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor, Emeritus at Stanford University. [1]
Developmental psychobiology is an interdisciplinary field, encompassing developmental psychology, biological psychology, neuroscience and many other areas of biology. The field covers all phases of ontogeny , with particular emphasis on prenatal, perinatal and early childhood development.
Psychology—one of the original departments with Frank Angell serving as its first chair. From 1922 to 1942, Lewis Terman served as its chair. [2] In 2015, it was ranked as #1 in the country among all psychology graduate programs in the United States. [3]
Lillard completed her PhD under the supervision of John Flavell at Stanford University in 1991. Her dissertation research, focusing on young children's mental representations of pretend play, [11] was awarded the American Psychological Association's Outstanding Dissertation Award of 1992, [12] and later the Boyd McCandless Award for early contributions to developmental science.
She serves as the Josephine Knotts Knowles Professor in Human Biology at Stanford University [1] and has been described as "the leading researcher in infant-directed speech". [2] Fernald received a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Oregon in 1982, [3] where she studied under the mentorship of Patricia K. Kuhl.
In 1989, Shapiro became a professor and the founding chair of the department of developmental biology at Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California. [8] She was the Joseph D. Grant Professor in the school of medicine from 1989–1998, [17] before becoming the Virginia and D.K. Ludwig Professor of Cancer Research in 1998. [17]
Erin M. Gibson is a glial and circadian biologist as well as an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and the Stanford Center for Sleep Sciences and Medicine at Stanford University.
William Damon (born 1944) is an American psychologist who is a professor at Stanford University and a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. He is one of the world's leading scholars of human development. Damon has done pioneering research on the development of purpose in life and wrote the influential book The Path to ...