Department of Psychology, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095
Current Position
Professor of Psychology, UCLA
Previous Positions (selected)
1968-1972 Research Fellow in Psychology, Center for Cognitive Studies, Department of Psychology, Harvard University
1972-1973 Acting Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Stanford University
1973-1974 Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz
1974-1978 Associate Professor of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles
Education
1962 A.B. summa cum laude, Radcliffe College
1966 Ph. D., Harvard University, Social Psychology/Personality Research
Professional Activities/Honors (selected)
1967 First award, Creative Talent Awards Program of the American Institutes for Research for dissertation
1986-7 Science Fellow, Bunting Institute, Radcliffe College
1987 Visiting Professor, University of Rome
1988 Gold Shield Faculty Prize for Academic Excellence ($25,000)
1991-2 Member, Faculty Advisory Committee, UCLA American Indian Studies Center
1992 American Association for the Advancement of Science Prize for Behavioral Research
1993 Chair, UCLA Joint Committee on Multicultural Studies
1996 Member, Faculty Advisory Committee, UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center
1997 James McKeen Cattell Sabbatical Award
1997 Member, Cultural Contact Working Group, Russell Sage Foundation
Executive Committee, International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology, 1972-74, 1996-present
Fellow, American Psychological Association, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Psychological Society
Foreign Languages Used for Research
Wolof, French, Tzotzil, Spanish
Related Publications (selected)
Greenfield, P. M., Quiroz, B., &. Raeff, C. (2000). Cross-cultural conflict and harmony in the social construction of the child. In S. Harkness, C. Raeff, & C. R. super (eds.), The social construction of the child: The nature of variability. New Directions in child development. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Raeff, C., Greenfield, P. M., & B. Quiroz ( 2000). Developing interpersonal relationships in the cultural contexts of individualism and collectivism. In S. Harkness, C. Raeff, & C.R. Super (eds.), The social construction of the child, New Directions in Child Development. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Greenfield, P. M. (1994). Independence and interdependence as developmental scripts: Implications for theory, research, and practice. In P. M. Greenfield & R. R. Cocking (Eds.), Cross-cultural roots of minority child development. (pp. 1-37). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Greenfield, P. M. & Suzuki, L. (1998). Culture and human development: Implications for parenting, education, pediatrics and mental health. In I. E. Sigel & K. A. Renninger (Eds.), Handbook of child psychology, Fifth edition, Vol. 4: Child psychology in practice. NY: Wiley.
Greenfield, P. M. (1999). Cultural change and human development. In E. Turiel (Ed.) New directions in child development (pp. 37-59). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Greenfield, P. M. (1994). Independence and interdependence as developmental scripts: Implications for theory, research, and practice. In P. M. Greenfield & R. R. Cocking (Eds.), Cross-cultural roots of minority child development. (pp. 1-37). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Greenfield, P. M. (1997). Culture as process: Empirical methods for cultural psychology. In J. W. Berry, Y. Poortinga, & J. Pandey (Eds.), Handbook of cross-cultural psychology: Vol. 1: Theory and method. (pp. 301-46). Boston: Allyn & Bacon.
Significant Publications (selected)
Greenfield, P. M. (1998). The cultural evolution of IQ. In U. Neisser (Ed.), Intelligence on the rise? (pp. 81-123). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Greenfield, P. M. (1997). You can’t take it with you: Why ability assessments don’t cross cultures. American Psychologist, special issue on intelligence through the lifespan, edited by R. Sternberg. Pp. 1115-1124.
Greenfield, P. M. (1991). Language, tools, and brain: The ontogeny and phylogeny of hierarchically organized sequential behavior. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 14, 531-51.
Greenfield, P. M. & Bruner, J. S. (1966). Culture and cognitive growth. International Journal of Psychology, 1, 89-107.
Bruner, J. S., Olver, R. R., Greenfield, P. M., et al. (1966). Studies in cognitive growth. New York: Wiley. Translated into Spanish, Italian, German, Danish, Hungarian, Russian, and Japanese.
Current Research Support
Russell Sage Foundation, Understanding Intergroup Relations through Understanding Cross-cultural Differences in Basic Value Orientations, $200,547, 12/1/96-11/30/00 (PI)
Carnegie Corporation, Understanding Intergroup Relations through Understanding Cross-cultural Differences in Basic Value Orientations, $175,000, 7/1/96-6/30/00 (PI)
UCLA Academic Senate, for research on weaving and cognitive development in Chiapas, Mexico, $3000, 7/1/99-6/30/00 (PI)
UCLA Latin American Studies Center, for same project, $2000, 7/1/99-6/30/00 (PI)
WestEd, Bridging Cultures, $97,500, 11/95-11/99