Seth Pollak is College of Letters and Science Distinguished
Professor
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of
Psychology
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and an Investigator in the Social and Affective Processes Unit of the
Waisman Center at the
University of Wisconsin–Madison
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. He specializes in
developmental psychopathology Developmental psychopathology is the study of the development of psychological disorders (e.g., psychopathy, autism, schizophrenia and depression) with a life course perspective. Researchers who work from this perspective emphasize how psychopatho ...
, focusing on the
neuropsychology
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of
emotion
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, particularly the role that early experience plays in the development of
brain
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structure and psychological functioning. Pollak received a
B.A. from
Franklin and Marshall College
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, an
M.A. from
Harvard University
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, and a
Ph.D.
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from the
University of Rochester
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The University of Roc ...
. He is married to fellow
psychologist
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Jenny Saffran
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.
References
External links
Seth Pollak's Homepage
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
21st-century American psychologists
Harvard University alumni
University of Rochester alumni
University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty
Franklin & Marshall College alumni
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