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


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About Roger Brown (psychologist)

  • 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.

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