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Professor

Jerome Kagan

(
1929
2021
)
Harvard University
;
Cambridge, MA
Psychologist; Educator
Area
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Specialty
Psychological Sciences
Elected
1968

Jerome Kagan chaired the Çï¿ûÊÓÆµ's Committee on Publications and served as a member of the Çï¿ûÊÓÆµ's Council. He was one of the key pioneers of developmental psychology and was the Daniel and Amy Starch research professor of psychology emeritus, at Harvard University, where he was Co-director of the Mind/Brain Behavior Interfaculty Initiative. His research on the cognitive and emotional development of a child during the first decade of life focused on the origins of temperament. He tracked the development of inhibited and uninhibited children from infancy to adolescence. Author of Growth of the Child (1978), The Nature of the Child (1982), and Galen's Prophecy: Temperament in Human Nature (1997), his later books include The Three Cultures: Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, and the Humanities in the 21st Century (2009), What is Emotion? (2007) , The Long Shadow of Temperament (2004, with Nancy Snidman), The Human Spark (2013) and On Being Human (2016). He was elected to the American Çï¿ûÊÓÆµ of Arts and Sciences in 1968.

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