Carolyn Tucker Halpern is an American developmental psychologist and Professor in the

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, where she is Chair of the Department of Maternal and Child Health. She is also the deputy director of the

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. Halpern graduated ''

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'' from the

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in 1976 with a BS in

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. She then earned a MA (1979) and a

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(1982) in

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also from the

.https://www.cpc.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/cvs/halpern.pdf

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