Iowa Child Welfare Research Station

Iowa Child Welfare Research Station
Established1917 [1]
Research typeChild development, Developmental psychology, Pediatrics
LocationIowa City, Iowa
AffiliationsUniversity of Iowa

The Iowa Child Welfare Research Station attached to the University of Iowa conducted pioneering research into child development and child psychology during the 20th century. German-American psychologist Kurt Zadek Lewin worked there and Robert Richardson Sears directed the station for much of the 1940s. Many other eminent psychologists, physiologists, and researchers were associated with the station and its work.

In 1963 the station was renamed the Institute of Child Behavior and Development due to negative association amongst the public with the phrase "Child Welfare".[2] In 1974 the Institute was closed as a research establishment.[3]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Elusive was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Cantor, Joan H. (1991), Psychology At Iowa: Centennial Essays, Hillsdale, New Jersey: L. Erlbaum Associates, p. 42, ISBN 978-0-8058-0761-5, OCLC 23144652
  3. ^ Cravens, Hamilton Cravens (1993), Before Head Start: The Iowa Station and America's Children, Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, p. 250, ISBN 978-0-8078-2092-6, OCLC 27265602