Jerome Kagan

Jerome Kagan
Born(1929-02-25)February 25, 1929
Newark, New Jersey, U.S.
DiedMay 10, 2021(2021-05-10) (aged 92)
Alma mater
Scientific career
FieldsDevelopmental psychology
Institutions
Doctoral students
Websitenecsi.edu/faculty/kagan.html

Jerome Kagan (February 25, 1929 – May 10, 2021) was an American psychologist, who was the Daniel and Amy Starch Research Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, as well as, co-faculty at the New England Complex Systems Institute.[1][2] He was one of the key pioneers of developmental psychology.[3]

Kagan has shown that an infant's "temperament" is quite stable over time, in that certain behaviors in infancy are predictive of certain other behavior patterns in adolescence.[4] He did extensive work on temperament and gave insight on emotion.

In 2001, he was listed in the Review of General Psychology among the one hundred most eminent psychologists of the twentieth century. After being evaluated quantitatively and qualitatively, Kagan was twenty-second on the list, just above Carl Jung.[5]

  1. ^ Sweeney, S. (2010-04-15). "Often, we are what we were". Harvard Gazette. Retrieved 2012-07-30.
  2. ^ Harvard University. "Department Directory". Archived from the original on 2012-01-20. Retrieved 2011-11-28.
  3. ^ Roberts, Sam (21 May 2021). "Jerome Kagan, Who Tied Temperament to Biology, Dies at 92". New York Times.
  4. ^ Kagan, J. (2004). The Long Shadow of Temperament. United States of America: President and Fellows of Harvard College.
  5. ^ Haggbloom, S. J.; et al. (2002). "The 100 Most Eminent Psychologists of the 20th Century" (PDF). Review of General Psychology. 6 (2): 139–152. doi:10.1037/1089-2680.6.2.139. S2CID 145668721. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-12-24. Haggbloom et al. combined three quantitative variables: citations in professional journals, citations in textbooks, and nominations in a survey given to members of the Association for Psychological Science, with three qualitative variables (converted to quantitative scores): National Academy of Sciences (NAS) membership, American Psychological Association (APA) President and/or recipient of the APA Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award, and surname used as an eponym. Then the list was rank ordered.