Roger Brown (psychologist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Roger Brown (psychologist)

American psycholinguist and social psychologist (1925-1997)

Date of Birth: 14-Apr-1925

Place of Birth: Detroit, Michigan, United States

Date of Death: 11-Dec-1997

Profession: psychologist, linguist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Roger William Brown (April 14, 1925 – December 11, 1997), an American social psychologist, was born in Detroit. Roger Brown, Ph.D., was known for his work in social psychology and in children's language development.
He taught at Harvard University from 1952 until 1957 and from 1962 until 1994, and at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1957 until 1962.
His scholarly books include Words and Things: An Introduction to Language (1958), Social Psychology (1965), Psycholinguistics (1970), A First Language: The Early Stages (1973), and Social Psychology: The Second Edition (1985).
He authored numerous journal articles and book chapters. He was the doctoral adviser or a post-doctoral mentor of many researchers in child language development and psycholinguistics, including Jean Berko Gleason, Susan Ervin-Tripp, Camile Hanlon, Dan Slobin, Ursula Bellugi, Courtney Cazden, Richard F.
Cromer, David McNeill, Eric Lenneberg, Colin Fraser, Eleanor Rosch (Heider), Melissa Bowerman, Steven Pinker, Kenji Hakuta, Jill de Villiers, and Peter de Villiers.
A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Brown as the 34th most cited psychologist of the 20th century.