Daniel R. Anderson

Daniel R. Anderson (born 1944) is an American psychologist and a professor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Anderson specializes in developmental psychology and was involved in the creation of children's television series including Allegra's Window , Gullah Gullah Island , Bear in the Big Blue House , Blue's Clues , and Dora the Explorer . He has also acted as an advisor to Captain Kangaroo , The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss , Sesame Street , Fimbles , Go, Diego, Go! , It's a Big Big World , Peep and the Big Wide World and The WotWots .

In 2005, Anderson became part of the Sesame Beginnings Advisory Board, which included other "national child development and media experts". The Workshop has also awarded him a grant to study the "impact of baby videos on parent-child interaction".

Anderson received his Ph.D. from Brown University in 1971.

Publications

• Instructional programming for the handicapped student, 1975
• The impact of children's education: Television's influence on cognitive development
• Instructional programs for the severely handicapped student: Field test version
• The impact on children's education : television's influence on cognitive development
• Fmri in Media Psychology Research: A Special Issue of Media Psychology, with John P. Murray, 30 January 2006
• Early Childhood Television Viewing and Adolescent Behavior: The Recontact Study (Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development), with Aletha C. Huston, Kelly Schmitt, Deborah Linebarger, John C. Wright, March 2001, ISBN   0-631-22922-1

Summary of journals, encyclopedias, books, etc.

• Advances in applied developmental psychology (1984, with R. Smith)
• Attention and cognitive development (1979, with L. F. Alwitt, E. P. Lorch, S. R. Levin)
• AV Communication Review (1977, with S. R. Levin and E. P. Lorch)
• British Journal of Statistical and Mathematical Psychology (1972, with D. G. Kemler)
• Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society (1973, with B. E. Shepp and D. G. Kemler)
• Child Development (1976, with S. R. Levin; 1979, with E. P. Lorch, S. R. Levin; 1981, with E. P. Lorch, D. E. Field, J. Sanders; 1985, with C. Fischer, R. Smith; 1985, with D. E. Field, P. A. Collins, E. P. Lorch, J. G. Nathan; 1986, with J. Gibbons, R. N. Smith, D. E. Field, C. Fischer; 1986, with E. P. Lorch, P. A. Collins, D. E. Field, J. G. Nathan)
• Children and the formal features of television (1983 with D. E. Field)
• Children's understanding of TV: Research on attention and comprehension (1983, J. Bryant; 1983 with E. P. Lorch; 1983 with J. Bryant; 1987, with H. P. Choi, E. P. Lorch)
• Contemporary Psychology (1978)
• Developmental Psychology (1981, with E. P. Lorch, R. Smith, R. Bradford, S. R. Levin; 1999, with K. L. Schmitt, P.A. Collins)
• Encyclopedia of Communication and Information (2002, “Children’s attention to television”)
• G is for growing: Thirty years of research on Sesame Street (2001, “Sesame Street viewers as adolescents: The recontact study”, with A.C. Huston, J.C. Wright, D. Linebarger, K.L. Schmitt)
• Human Factors (1985, with J. G. Nathan, D. E. Field, P. A. Collins)
• In Contemporary Psychology (1981; 1981)
• Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology (2003)
• Journal of Communication (1976, with S. R. Levin; 2003, with K.L. Schmitt, K.D. Woolf)
• Journal of Educational Psychology (1985, with D. E. Field; 1985, with D. E. Field)
• Journal of Experimental Child Psychology (1972; 1975, with A. D. Well, G. F. Strutt; 1975, with A. D. Well; 1980, with J. M. Dowd, R. K. Clifton, W. H. Eichelman; 1980, with A. D. Well, E. P. Lorch)
• Journal of Experimental Psychology , later Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance (1975, with M. A. Clement; 1984, with E. P. Lorch, A. D. Well)
• Media Psychology (2002, with K.L. Schmitt)
• Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development (2001, with A.C. Huston, J.C. Wright, D. Linebarger, K.L. Schmitt)
• Psychological Review (1972, with B. E. Shepp and D. G. Kemler)
• Psychological processes and advertising effects: Theory, research and application (1985)
• Sex Roles (1982, with L. Ross, P. A.Wisocki)

Notes

1. ^ "Introducing Sesame Beginnings". Sesame Workshop. 2005. Archived from the original on 2005-12-25.

External links

• Official webpage at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, with full list of publications
• Short presentation at the university website