Carolyn Zahn-Waxler | |
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Occupation(s) | Honorary Fellow, Center for Healthy Minds, University of Wisconsin–Madison |
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Alma mater | University of Minnesota University of Wisconsin |
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Carolyn Zahn-Waxler is an American developmental psychologist known for studying morality over the life span, social emotions, and empathy in childhood.[1][2] She holds the position of Honorary Fellow at the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.[3]
Zahn-Waxler won the Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Child Development Award from Society for Research in Child Development in 2021.[4][5] In 2015, she was awarded the G. Stanley Hall Award for Distinguished Contribution to Developmental Psychology from Division 7 of the American Psychological Association (APA).[6] Zahn-Waxler and her colleagues received the APA George A. Miller Award for an Outstanding Recent Article in General Psychology for their article "The developmental origins of a disposition toward empathy: Genetic and environmental contributions"[7] in 2011.[8]
Zahn-Waxler was President of APA Division 7, Developmental Psychology from 1997 to 1998.[9] She served as Associate Editor, then Editor-in-chief of the journal Developmental Psychology in the 1990s.[10] She gave a TEDx talk for TEDxGoldenGate on June 11, 2011.[11]
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