Jay Belsky

Jay Belsky
Born (1952-07-07) July 7, 1952 (age 72)
New York City, New York
NationalityAmerican
Alma materCornell University (Ph.D., 1978)
Known forWork on effects of child care on children
Awards1988 Boyd McCandless Award, 2007 Urie Bronfenbrenner Award, 2015 Bowlby-Ainsworth Award
Scientific career
FieldsChild psychology
InstitutionsUniversity of California-Davis
ThesisFamily interaction in toddlerhood: a naturalistic observational study (1978)

Jay Belsky (born July 7, 1952)[1] is an American child psychologist and the Robert M. and Natalie Reid Dorn Professor of Human Development at the University of California, Davis. He is noted for his research in the fields of child development and family studies. He was a founding investigator of the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development in the United States, and of the National Evaluation of Sure Start in the United Kingdom.[2] He has been an ISI Highly Cited Researcher since 2002.[3]

  1. ^ Belsky, Jay (1976). The short term stability of mother-infant interaction within and across two settings: home and laboratory. Cornell University, Sept. pp. ii.
  2. ^ "Jay Belsky". Human Development Graduate Group. 2017-04-25. Retrieved 2017-09-28.
  3. ^ "Jay Belsky". WAIMH 2018. Retrieved 2017-09-28.