Patricia Marks Greenfield

Patricia Marks Greenfield
Born
Patricia Marks

(1940-07-18) July 18, 1940 (age 84)
Newark, New Jersey, U.S.
Alma mater
Occupations
  • Psychologist
  • professor
Spouse
Sheldon Greenfield
​
(m. 1965)​
ChildrenLauren Greenfield
Matthew Greenfield
RelativesFrank Evers
(son-in-law)

Patricia Marks Greenfield (born July 18, 1940)[1] is an American psychologist and professor known for her research in the fields of culture and human development. She is a Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California in Los Angeles and served as president of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology from 2014–2016.

Greenfield has received numerous awards throughout her career. These include the American Psychological Association Urie Bronfenbrenner Award for Lifetime Contribution to Developmental Psychology in the Service of Science and Society in 2010[2] and the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) Award for Distinguished Contributions to Cultural and Contextual Factors in Child Development in 2013.[3] She was selected as recipient of the Outstanding Contributions to Cultural Psychology Award from the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology in 2018.[4] In 2019 she received the Ernst E. Boesch Prize from the German Society of Cultural Psychology, for major impact on cultural psychological research.[5]

She received the American Association for the Advancement of Science Award for Behavioral Science Research[6] for her 1991 paper titled Language, tools and brain: The ontogeny and phylogeny of hierarchically organized sequential behavior,[7] which appeared in the journal Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2014.[8]

  1. ^ Rich, Grant J. (October 17, 2013). "Greenfield, Patricia Marks". The Encyclopedia of Cross-Cultural Psychology. Wiley Online Library. pp. 619–621. doi:10.1002/9781118339893.wbeccp252. ISBN 9781118339893.
  2. ^ "Urie Bronfenbrenner Award for Lifetime Contribution to Developmental Psychology". www.apadivisions.org. Retrieved 2018-12-15.
  3. ^ "SRCD TMCD 2016". tmcd.srcd.org. Retrieved 2018-12-15.
  4. ^ "Patricia Greenfield & Michele Gelfand | International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology". www.iaccp.org. Retrieved 2018-12-15.
  5. ^ "Ernst e. Boesch Preis – Kulturpsychologie".
  6. ^ "AAAS Prize for Behavioral Science Research". American Association for the Advancement of Science. Retrieved 2018-12-15.
  7. ^ Greenfield, P., Andreae, J., Ryan, S., Pepperberg, I., Westergaard, G., & Pinon, P. (1994). Language, tools, and the brain: The ontogeny and phylogeny of hierarchically organized sequential behavior. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 17(2), 357-365.
  8. ^ "American Academy Of Arts And Sciences | UCLA". www.ucla.edu. Retrieved 2018-12-15.