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.