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Eleanor Emmons Maccoby (May 15, 1917 – December 11, 2018) was an American psychologist who was most recognized for her research and scholarly contributions to the fields of gender studies and developmental psychology. [ 1] Throughout her career she studied sex differences, gender development, gender differentiation, parent-child relations ...
The Inevitability of Patriarchy: Why the Biological Difference Between Men and Women Always Produces Male Domination is a book by Steven Goldberg published by William Morrow and Company in 1973. The theory proposed by Goldberg is that social institutions that are characterised by male dominance may be explained by biological differences between ...
Mary Ainsworth. 1913–1999. Developmental psych. Known for her work in early emotional attachment with the Strange Situation design, as well as her work in the development of attachment theory . [4] Estefania Aldaba-Lim. 1917–2006. Clinical psych.
Parenting styles. A parenting style is a pattern of behaviors, attitudes, and approaches that a parent uses when interacting with and raising their child. The study of parenting styles is based on the idea that parents differ in their patterns of parenting and that these patterns can have a significant impact on their children's development and ...
Egon Brunswik. David Krech. Academic work. Discipline. Developmental psychologist. Diana Blumberg Baumrind (August 23, 1927 – September 13, 2018) was a clinical and developmental psychologist known for her research on parenting styles and for her critique of the use of deception in psychological research .
Susan E. Carey (born 1942 [ 1]) is an American psychologist who is a professor of psychology at Harvard University. She studies language acquisition, children's development of concepts, conceptual changes over time, and the importance of executive functions. [ 2] She has conducted experiments on infants, toddlers, adults, and non-human primates ...
The social construction of gender is a theory in the humanities and social sciences about the manifestation of cultural origins, mechanisms, and corollaries of gender perception and expression in the context of interpersonal and group social interaction. Specifically, the social construction of gender theory stipulates that gender roles are an ...
Jean Matter Mandler (born November 1929) is Distinguished Research Professor of Cognitive Science at the University of California, San Diego and visiting professor at University College London . She was born in Oak Park, Illinois and attended Carleton College before transferring to Swarthmore College, where she graduated summa cum laude in 1951.