Developmental psychologists

Bayley was born on September 28, 1899, in Dalles, Oregon.

Dr. Barbara Landau is a professor in the Department of Cognitive Science at Johns Hopkins University and also chairs the department.

Laura-Ann Petitto (born c. 1954) is a cognitive neuroscientist and a developmental cognitive neuroscientist, known for her discoveries involving the language capacity of chimpanzees, the biological bases of language in humans, especially early language acquisition (be it language on the hands in sign language or the tongue in oral language), and bilingualism and the bilingual brain.

Rachel Pinney (11 July 1909 – 19 October 1995) was a British doctor who pioneered therapeutic approaches to children's development in the 1960s which she termed Creative Listening, and Children's Hours.

Richard N. Aslin (born August 9, 1949) is an American psychologist.

Priscilla K. Coleman, Ph.

Simon Baron-Cohen FBA (born 15 August 1958) is Professor of developmental psychopathology at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom.

Karen Wynn (born December 18, 1962) is a Canadian and American Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science at Yale University.

Sir Michael Llewellyn Rutter CBE FRS FRCP FRCPsych FMedSci (born 15 August 1933) was the first professor of child psychiatry in the United Kingdom.

Michael Siegal (March 30, 1950 – February 20, 2012) was a developmental psychologist and cognitive scientist who was Marie Curie Chair in Psychology at the University of Trieste, Italy, and was a Professor of Psychology at the University of Sheffield, UK.

Bärbel Elisabeth Inhelder (April 15, 1913 – February 17, 1997) was a Swiss developmental psychologist, the most famous co-worker of Jean Piaget.

Yanghee Lee is a South Korean developmental psychologist and professor at Sungkyunkwan University.

Elizabeth Shilin Spelke (born May 28, 1949) is an American cognitive psychologist at the Department of Psychology of Harvard University and director of the Laboratory for Developmental Studies.

Joan Mowat Erikson (born Sarah Lucretia Serson; June 27, 1903 – August 3, 1997) was well known as the collaborator with her husband, Erik Erikson and as an author, educator, craftsperson, and dance ethnographer.

Abraham Low (1891–1954), was a Jewish-American neuropsychiatrist noted for his work establishing self-help programs for the mentally ill, and criticism of Freudian psychoanalysis.

Brian James MacWhinney (born August 22, 1945) is a Professor of Psychology and Modern Languages at Carnegie Mellon University.

John H. Flavell (born August 9, 1928 in Rockland, Massachusetts) is an American developmental psychologist specializing in children's cognitive development.

Michael Tomasello (born January 18, 1950) is an American developmental and comparative psychologist.

Maccoby was the second oldest of four siblings born to Eugene and Viva Emmons.

Elissa Lee Newport is a Professor of Neurology and Director of the Center for Brain Plasticity and Recovery at Georgetown University.

Elizabeth Bates (July 26, 1947 – December 13, 2003) was a Professor of psychology and cognitive science at the University of California, San Diego.

Erica Burman (born 1960) is a critical development psychologist based in Britain.

Esther Thelen was an expert in the field of developmental psychology.

Gary B. Mesibov is a Licensed Psychologist, Psychology professor, editor and an author.

Katherine Nelson is an American developmental psychologist, a distinguished professor emerita of psychology at the City University of New York.

Keith E. Stanovich is Emeritus Professor of Applied Psychology and Human Development, University of Toronto and former Canada Research Chair of Applied Cognitive Science.

Urie Bronfenbrenner (April 29, 1917 – September 25, 2005) was a Russian-born American developmental psychologist who is most known for his ecological systems theory of child development.

Lila Gleitman (born December 10, 1929) is a professor emerita of psychology and linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania.

Linda B. Smith is a Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science at Indiana University.

Emmy E. Werner (born 1929) is an American developmental psychologist.

Jerome Kagan (born February 25, 1929) is an American psychologist, and Daniel and Amy Starch Research Professor of Psychology, Emeritus at Harvard University, and co-faculty at the New England Complex Systems Institute.

Sara Smilansky (Hebrew שרה סמילנסקי, January 28, 1922, Jerusalem, Israel – December 5, 2006) was a professor at Tel Aviv University in Israel and was a senior researcher for The Henrietta Szold Institute: The National Institute for Research in the Behavioral Sciences for the Ruth Bressler Center for Research in Education.

Linda S. Siegel (born 1942) is an American-born psychologist and academic known for her research into the cognitive aspects of learning disabilities.

Alison Gopnik (born June 16, 1955) is an American professor of psychology and affiliate professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley.

Susan Sutherland Isaacs, CBE (née Fairhurst; 24 May 1885 – 12 October 1948; also known as Ursula Wise) was a Lancashire-born educational psychologist and psychoanalyst.

William Emet Blatz (/ˈblætz/; June 30, 1895 – November 1, 1964) was a German-Canadian developmental psychologist known for his creation of security theory, a precursor to attachment theory.

Mary Main (1943) is an American psychologist notable for her work in the field of attachment.

Jerome Seymour Bruner (October 1, 1915 – June 5, 2016) was an American psychologist who made significant contributions to human cognitive psychology and cognitive learning theory in educational psychology.

Margaret Frances Jane Lowenfeld (4 February 1890 – 2 February 1973) was a British pioneer of child psychology and psychotherapy, a medical researcher in paediatric medicine, and an author of several publications and academic papers on the analysis of child development and play.

Robert Kegan (born August 24, 1946) is an American developmental psychologist and author.

Kurt W. Fischer is Charles Bigelow Professor of Education at Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Arnold J. Sameroff is an American developmental psychologist.

Janet Werker is a researcher in the field of developmental psychology.

Andrew N. Meltzoff (born February 9, 1950) is an American psychologist and an internationally recognized expert on infant and child development.

Anna Stetsenko, born in the former Soviet Union, is a developmental psychologist at the City University of New York.

Anne Fernald is an American psychologist, the Josephine Knotts Knowles Professor in Human Biology at Stanford University, and has been described as "the leading researcher in infant-directed speech".

Annette Karmiloff-Smith FMedSci is a professorial research fellow at the Developmental Neurocognition Lab at Birkbeck, University of London.

Stephen Crain is the Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders (CCD), and a Distinguished Professor at Macquarie University in the Department of Linguistics.

Stephen J. Ceci is an American psychologist at Cornell University.

Louise Bates Ames (29 October 1908 – 31 October 1996) was an American psychologist specializing in child development.

Hans G. Furth (December 2, 1920, Vienna – November 7, 1999, Takoma Park, Maryland), was a Professor emeritus in the Faculty of Psychology of the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.

Paul Bloom (born December 24, 1963) is a Canadian American professor of psychology and cognitive science at Yale University.

Mary Dinsmore Salter Ainsworth (/ˈeɪnswɜːrθ/; December 1, 1913 – March 21, 1999) was an American-Canadian developmental psychologist known for her work in the development of attachment theory.

Michael E. Lamb, PhD is a professor and former Head of the then Department of Social and Developmental Psychology at the University of Cambridge.

Carol Gilligan (/ˈɡɪlɪɡən/; born November 28, 1936) is an American feminist, ethicist, and psychologist best known for her work on ethical community and ethical relationships, and certain subject-object problems in ethics.

Andreas Demetriou (Greek: Ανδρέας Δημητρίου; born Andreas Panteli Demetriou on 15 August 1950) is a Greek Cypriot developmental psychologist and former Minister of Education and Culture of Cyprus.

Helen L. Bee (born 1939) is a psychologist and author of several books on the subject of human development, including both child development and adult development.

Nnenna Nwakanma is an FLOSS activist, community organizer, development adviser and development consultant originally from Nigeria in Africa.

Robert S. Siegler (also known as Bob Siegler) is Teresa Heinz Professor of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University and recipient of the American Psychological Association's 2005 Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award.

Rochel Gelman (born January 23, 1942) is a psychology professor at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, and Co-Director of the Center for Cognitive Science.

Jean Berko Gleason (born 1931) is a professor emerita in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences (formerly the Department of Psychology) at Boston University,a psycholinguist who has made fundamental contributions to the understanding of language acquisition in children, aphasia, gender differences in language development, and parent–child interactions.

Aletha Jauch Solter, PhD (born 1945) is a Swiss/American developmental psychologist who studied with Jean Piaget in Switzerland before earning a PhD in psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Catherine Elizabeth Snow (born December 14, 1945) is an educational psychologist and applied linguist.

Catherine Alexandra McBride, Ph.

Mark Johnson is a British cognitive neuroscientist who since 1997 is head of the Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development at Birkbeck, University of London.

Tricia Striano was born in Weymouth Massachusetts.

Dr Alan M. Leslie is a Scottish psychologist and Professor of Psychology and Cognitive science at Rutgers University, where he directs the Cognitive Development Laboratory and is co-director of the Rutgers University Center for Cognitive Science (RUCCS)along with Ernest Lepore.

Carolyn Rovee-Collier (April 7, 1942 – October 2, 2014) was a Professor of Psychology at Rutgers University.

Joseph McVicker Hunt (March 19, 1906 – January 9, 1991) was a prominent American educational psychologist and author.

James E. Marcia is a clinical and developmental psychologist.