Marian Radke-Yarrow

Marian Jeanette Radke - Yarrow ( born March 2, 1918 in Horicon, Wisconsin, † 19 May, 2007 Bethesda, Maryland) was a famous American psychologist and long-term studies in particular, the emotional development of children on the background of their respective social family environment explored.

Biography

After finishing school, Marian Radke - Yarrow studied psychology at the University of Wisconsin. She graduated in 1939 with a BA (Bachelor ) from and received at the University of Minnesota in 1944, her doctor ( Ph.D.) in this field. Subsequently, she taught psychology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Technical University of Massachusetts), a private university in Cambridge, then at Queens College, City University of New York and the University of Denver, worked occasionally as a psychological counselor for the U.S. Army.

Earlier in her career, she took part in the so-called Philadelphia Early Childhood Project - conducted by the school authorities and various research institutes with the aim of racially or religiously -related prejudice among school children at an early stage and encounter. This study / investigation refuted et al the hitherto prevalent among school officials believe infants are immune to prejudice. In their 1952 published ( co-authored with Helen G. exchanger ) book "They Learn What They Live: Prejudice in Young Children" ( "They learn how they live: prejudice in young children " ) they summarized the results of this study of 250 students aged 5-8 years in public schools in Philadelphia together. The book was consulted in the process Brown v. Board of Education ( of Topeka, Kansas ), in which it came to the desegregation of public schools by the court for decision.

1953 she began at the National Institutes of Mental Health to work, was from 1974 to 1995 director of the affiliated here Laboratory of Developmental Psychology ( Developmental psychology laboratory at the National Institute of Mental Health).

As a member of a social science delegation to the People's Republic of China in 1973, she had the opportunity to examine first-hand how children were reared in a for a long time largely abgeschottetem ( communist ) country. The impressions of this journey Marian Radke - Yarrow published in 1975 in the book "Childhood in China" ( " Childhood in China").

In one - extending over a period of 10 years - long-term study of altruism, which they in the 80s (along with Carolyn tooth - Waxler ) conducted, they found - in contrast to the hitherto prevailing scientific opinion - that children already from the early age of 12 months, are already quite capable of recognizing the situation / location in which another person is, and to this can also respond through gestures. "This is not happenstance. These modes of behavior patterning begin from very early on. " ( " That's are not random movements / gestures. These basic patterns of behavior are already a very early age. " ) Explained Dr. Radke - Yarrow in an interview with the New York Times in 1981.

In another long -term study they explored the impact of the behavior of depressed mothers on the emotional development of their children. The results they published in 1998 in the book " Children of Depressed Mothers ." The book was based on the study of 98 families. 68 of the 98 participating in the study mothers suffering from depression and numerous fathers of these children - the study took into account this with - showed the same basic pattern. The emotional development of children from infancy to puberty was observed on the background of this family situation.

In various other studies Marian Radke - Yarrow explored the relationship of good / real / healthy eating and emotional development of infants and toddlers. She was president of the prestigious American Psychological Association (APA), was co-editor of several psychological journals, lectured widely in the United States and Europe.

Marian Radke - Yarrow died on 19 May 2007 at the age of 89 from leukemia.

Private

Marian Radke ( - Yarrow ) married in 1949, Leon J. Yarrow. Leon Yarrow worked for the Federal Security Agency 's Children's Bureau and the U.S. Department of Health, before he began his work in 1965 at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in Bethesda. The couple remained together until Leon Yarrows death in 1982. The marriage was a son - Andrew L. Yarrow - out.

Works (selection)

  • The Relation of Parental Authority to Children 's Behavior and Attitudes, 1946
  • Child Rearing: Inquiry Into Research and Methods (along with John D. Campbell and Roger V. Burton ), 1968
  • Recollections of Childhood: A Study of the Retrospective Method, 1970
  • Human Aging: A Biological and Behavioral Study, 1971
  • Childhood in China, 1975
  • Development of Antisocial and Prosocial Behavior, 1986
  • Risk and Protective Factors in the Development of Psychopathology, 1989
  • Children of Depressed Mothers: From Early Childhood to Maturity, 1998

Awards

  • G. Stanley Hall Award, the highest award of the American Psychological Association (APA)
  • Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award from the Society for Research in Child Development
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