From Handwiki Kirby Deater-Deckard | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Education | Pennsylvania State University University of Virginia |
| Awards | Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science (2008) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Developmental psychology |
| Institutions | University of Oregon Virginia Tech University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| Thesis | Differential Discipline and Parent Perceptions of Siblings' Characteristics: Comparing Between- and Within-Family Analyses (1994) |
| Doctoral advisors | Sandra Scarr Richard Q. Bell Charlotte Patterson Emily Hauenstein |
Kirby D. Deater-Deckard is an American developmental psychologist who is Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, as well as director of the Healthy Development Initiative at the UMass Center in Springfield.[1] He has been a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science since 2008.[2]
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