Kirby Deater-Deckard

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Kirby Deater-Deckard
Education Pennsylvania State University
University of Virginia
AwardsFellow 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] Dr. Deater-Deckard is also the co-author (along with Dr. John W. Santrock) of a number of textbooks like "Children, 15th Edition" [3] and "Child Development: An Introduction" [4] (now in the 16th edition). [5]

References

  1. ↑ "Kirby Deater-Deckard". Center for Research on Families. Retrieved 2019-06-23.
  2. ↑ "Kirby Deater-Deckard Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Retrieved 2019-06-23.
  3. ↑ "Children 15E".
  4. ↑ "Child Development 16E".
  5. ↑ "Kirby Deater-Deckard (Textbooks For Life)" . Retrieved 2025-11-11.


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