Jerome Kagan, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Jerome Kagan

American psychologist

Date of Birth: 25-Feb-1929

Place of Birth: Newark, New Jersey, United States

Profession: psychologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Jerome Kagan

  • Jerome Kagan (born February 25, 1929) is an American psychologist, and Daniel and Amy Starch Research Professor of Psychology, Emeritus at Harvard University, and co-faculty at the New England Complex Systems Institute.
  • He is one of the key pioneers of developmental psychology. Kagan has shown that an infant's "temperament" is quite stable over time, in that certain behaviors in infancy are predictive of certain other behavior patterns in adolescence.
  • He did extensive work on temperament and gave insight on emotion.
  • Kagan was listed as the 22nd most eminent psychologist of the 20th century, just above Carl Jung.

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