Judith Dunn | |
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Born | Judith Frances Pace 1939 (age 82–83) |
Nationality | British |
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Children | Three |
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Discipline | Psychology |
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Judith Frances Dunn, FBA , FMedSci (born 1939) is a British psychologist and academic,who specialises in social developmental psychology.
Dunn was the daughter of James Pace and Jean Stewart. She studied at New Hall,Cambridge,graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1962;as per tradition,her BA was promoted to a Master of Arts (MA Cantab) degree in 1968. While a fellow of King's College,Cambridge,she undertook postgraduate research and she completed her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in 1982. [1]
From 1978 to 1986,Dunn was a Fellow of King's College,Cambridge,and a Medical Research Council Senior Scientific Officer. [1] [2] From 1986 to 1995,she was Professor of Human Development at Pennsylvania State University. [1] In 1994,she was made an Evan Pugh Professor; [3] an Evan Pugh Professorship is the "highest honor the institution can give to a member of its faculty". [4] From 1995 to 2012,she was Professor of Developmental Psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry,King's College,London. [1] [2] [5]
Dunn specializes in children's social emotional and sociocognitive development,parent-child,sibling and peer relationships,and the development of language and communication abilities. [6] [7]
Dunn is Chair of The Children's Society's Good Childhood Inquiry,established in 2006,which explores and measures children’s subjective well-being. [8] [9]
In 1961,the then Judith Pace married Martin Gardiner Bernal,a British scholar of modern Chinese political history who also wrote the controversial Black Athena ; [1] [10] Together,they had one daughter and twin sons. [10] They later divorced. [1] From 1973 to 1987,she was married to John Montfort Dunn,a British political theorist,before they too divorced. [1] In 1987,she married the American psychologist Robert Plomin. [1]
In 1996,Dunn was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA),the United Kingdom's national academy for humanities and social sciences. [2] In 2000,she was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci). [1]
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