Psych Prof Grazyna Kochanska wins APA award for developmental psychology

Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Grazyna Kochanska
Grazyna Kochanska

University of Iowa Professor Grazyna Kochanska has been selected to receive the G. Stanley Hall Award for Distinguished Contribution to Developmental Psychology from Division 7 (Developmental Psychology) of the American Psychological Association.

This award is the highest honor bestowed by Division 7, with past recipients including such luminaries as Jean Piaget, Harry Harlow, Eleanor Gibson, John Bowlby, and Mary Ainsworth. Evaluations for this award are based on the scientific merit of the individual's work, the importance of this work for opening up new empirical or theoretical areas of developmental psychology, and the importance of the individual's work in linking developmental psychology with issues confronting the larger society or other disciplines.

Kochanska is a Stuit Professor of Developmental Psychology in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, part of the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences.

The University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences offers about 70 majors across the humanities; fine, performing and literary arts; natural and mathematical sciences; social and behavioral sciences; and communication disciplines. About 15,000 undergraduate and nearly 2,000 graduate students study each year in the college’s 37 departments, led by faculty at the forefront of teaching and research in their disciplines. The college teaches all Iowa undergraduates through the college's general education program, CLAS CORE. About 80 percent of all Iowa undergraduates begin their academic journey in CLAS. The college confers about 60 percent of the university's bachelor's degrees each academic year.