Peter C. M. Molenaar (born 1946) is a Dutch developmental and mathematical psychologist who is Distinguished Professor of Human Development and Family Studies at Pennsylvania State University (Penn State). He is the

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of ''

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''.

Biography

Molenaar received two

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s from the

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: one in 1972 and one in 1976. He also received two

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s from the University of Utrecht in 1976, one in

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and one in psychophysiology, before earning his Ph.D. in

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from the same university in 1981. He then served on the faculty of the

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, where he eventually became head of the Department of Methodology, before joining the faculty of Penn State in 2005. In 2013, he received the Sells Award for Distinguished Multivariate Research from the

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