David F. Bjorklund is a professor of psychology at Florida Atlantic University. Psychology (from Greek grc ψῡχή psȳkhē, "breath life soul" and grc -λογία -logia) is an Academic and His areas of research interest include cognitive development and evolutionary developmental psychology. The Theory of Cognitive Development (one of the most historically influential theories was developed by Jean Piaget, a Swiss Philosopher (1896–1980 Evolutionary developmental psychology, (or EDP) is the application of the basic principles of Darwinian Evolution, particularly Natural selection, to explain His works include authoring several books and over 130 scientific papers. He is editor of the peer-reviewed Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. Peer review (also known as refereeing) is the process of subjecting an author's scholarly work research or Ideas to the scrutiny of others who are
He received a Ph. D. , 1976 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Developmental psychology. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ( UNC, North Carolina, or simply Carolina) is a public, Coeducational Research In addition to his professorship at FAU, he has been visiting professor at Max-Planck-Institute for Psychological Research, Munich, Germany; University of Georgia, and Emory University
Books authored and edited
- Children's Thinking: Cognitive Development and Individual Differences,[1] now in its fourth edition,
- Why Youth is Not Wasted on the Young: Immaturity in Human Development,
- with Barbara Bjorklund, Looking at Children: An Introduction to Child Development,
- with Barbara Bjorklund, Parents Book of Discipline
- with Anthony Pellegrini, Applied Child Study
- with Anthony Pellegrini, The Origins of Human Nature: Evolutionary Developmental Psychology
- (ed. The Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e The University of Georgia ( UGA) is a public research University located in Athens, Georgia, the oldest and largest of the Emory University is a Private university located in the metropolitan area of the city of Atlanta and in western unincorporated DeKalb County, ) Children's Strategies: Contemporary Views of Cognitive Development,
- (ed. ) False-Memory Creation in Children and Adults: Theory, Research, and Implications
- (ed. , with Bruce Ellis) Origins of the Social Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and Child Development, (in press)
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Notes
- ^ The subtitle used to be Developmental Function and Individual Differences for the previous editions