Carolyn Zahn-Waxler

Carolyn Zahn-Waxler
Occupation(s)Honorary Fellow, Center for Healthy Minds, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Minnesota University of Wisconsin
Academic work
Institutions
  • National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
  • University of Wisconsin–Madison

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]

  1. ^ Goleman, Daniel (1985-03-05). "GREAT ALTRUISTS: SCIENCE PONDERS SOUL OF GOODNESS". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-10-19.
  2. ^ Brody, Jane E. (2010-02-15). "Empathy's Natural, but Nurturing It Helps". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-10-19.
  3. ^ "Carolyn Zahn-Waxler". Center for Healthy Minds. Retrieved 2022-09-19.
  4. ^ "2021 SRCD Biennial Awardees | Society for Research in Child Development SRCD". www.srcd.org. Retrieved 2022-10-11.
  5. ^ "Zahn-Waxler honored for distinguished scientific contributions to child development". University of Wisconsin- Department of Psychology.
  6. ^ "Presidential column". www.apadivisions.org. Retrieved 2022-10-12.
  7. ^ Knafo, Ariel; Zahn-Waxler, Carolyn; Van Hulle, Carol; Robinson, JoAnn L.; Rhee, Soo Hyun (2008). "The developmental origins of a disposition toward empathy: Genetic and environmental contributions". Emotion. 8 (6): 737–752. doi:10.1037/a0014179. ISSN 1931-1516. PMID 19102585.
  8. ^ "2011 Division 1 award winners". www.apadivisions.org. Retrieved 2022-10-11.
  9. ^ "Past Presidents of Division 7". www.apadivisions.org. Retrieved 2022-10-11.
  10. ^ Cite error: The named reference :1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  11. ^ "Is Empathy Learned--or Are We Born with It?". Developmental Science. Retrieved 2022-10-19.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia · View on Wikipedia

Developed by Nelliwinne