Robyn Fivush

Robyn Fivush
Academic background
EducationState University of New York at Stony Brook
The New School for Social Research
Alma materCUNY Graduate Center
Doctoral advisorKatherine Nelson
Academic work
DisciplinePsychology
Sub-disciplineAutobiographical memory development
InstitutionsEmory University
Doctoral studentsElaine Reese

Robyn Fivush is the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Psychology and Director of the Institute for the Liberal Arts at Emory University, College of Arts and Sciences in Atlanta, Georgia.[1] She is well known for her research on parent-child narrative (i.e., story telling and reminiscing) in relation to the development of autobiographical memory.[2][3] Fivush is affiliated with the Departments of Psychology and Women's Studies at Emory.

Fivush is the author of Family Narratives and the Development of an Autobiographical Self,[4] coauthor with Susan Golombok, of the volume Gender Development.[5][6] She has co-edited several volumes including The Remembering Self: Construction and Accuracy in the Self-Narrative (with Ulric Neisser),[7][8] Autobiographical Memory and the Construction of A Narrative Self: Developmental and Cultural Perspectives (with Catherine Haden),[9][10] Emotion in Memory and Development: Biological, Cognitive, and Social Considerations (with Jodi Quas),[11] and The Wiley Handbook on the Development of Children's Memory (with Patricia Bauer).[12]

  1. ^ "Robyn Fivush | Emory University | Atlanta GA". ila.emory.edu. Retrieved November 21, 2019.
  2. ^ Feiler, Bruce (March 15, 2013). "The Stories That Bind Us". The New York Times. Retrieved November 29, 2018.
  3. ^ Goleman, Daniel (April 6, 1993). "Studying the Secrets of Childhood Memory". The New York Times. Retrieved November 29, 2018.
  4. ^ Fivush, Robyn (2019). Family narratives and the development of an autobiographical self: social and cultural perspectives on autobiographical memory. ISBN 978-1-138-03724-3. OCLC 1056201785.
  5. ^ Golombok, Susan, Fivush, Robyn (1994). Gender development. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521403047. OCLC 28257052.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  6. ^ Gredler, Gilbert R. (July 1, 2000). "Golombok, S., & Fivush, R. (1994). Gender development. New York: Cambridge University Press. 275 pages, $22.75". Psychology in the Schools. 37 (4): 394–395. doi:10.1002/1520-6807(200007)37:4<394::aid-pits14>3.0.co;2-9. ISSN 1520-6807.
  7. ^ Neisser, Ulric, Fivush, Robyn (1994). The remembering self : construction and accuracy in the self-narrative. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521431941. OCLC 29477771.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  8. ^ Barrett, Paul (1996). "A Review of:"The Remembering Self: Construction and Accuracy in the Self-narrative", edited by ULRIC NEISSER and ROBYN FIVUSH, Cambridge University Press, New York (1994), pp. x + 301, £30.00, ISBN 0-521-43194-8". Ergonomics. 39 (2): 336–337. doi:10.1080/00140139608964464. ISSN 0014-0139.
  9. ^ Fivush, Robyn, Haden, Catherine A. (2003). Autobiographical memory and the construction of a narrative self : developmental and cultural perspectives. Mahwah, New Jersey: L. Erlbaum. ISBN 978-1410607478. OCLC 52723689.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  10. ^ Bauer, Patricia J. (February 22, 2005). "Autobiographical memory and the construction of a narrative self: developmental and cultural perspectives. Edited by Robyn Fivush and Catherine A. Haden. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, New Jersey, 2003. pp. 240. Price: £37.50, $49.95. ISBN 0805837566". Infant and Child Development. 14 (1): 104–106. doi:10.1002/icd.374. ISSN 1522-7227.
  11. ^ Emotion and memory in development : biological, cognitive, and social considerations. Quas, Jodi A., Fivush, Robyn. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2009. ISBN 9780195326932. OCLC 262143117.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  12. ^ Bauer, Patricia J., Fivush, Robyn. The Wiley handbook on the development of children's memory. Chichester, West Sussex. ISBN 9781118590188. OCLC 861536653.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)