David Fredrick Bjorklund (born June 13, 1949) is an American professor of
psychology
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at
Florida Atlantic University
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. His areas of research interest include
cognitive development
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and
evolutionary developmental psychology
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. His works include authoring several books and over 130 scientific papers. He is editor of the
peer-review
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ed ''
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
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''.
Bjorklund was born in
Worcester
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,
Massachusetts
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.
[''Massachusetts, Birth Index, 1860-1970''] He received a Ph.D., 1976 from the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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in
Developmental psychology. In addition to his professorship at FAU, he has been visiting professor at
Max Planck Institute for Psychological Research
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Founded in 1981, the institute included during its history the following units:
* Behavioral and Cognitiv ...
, Munich, Germany;
University of Georgia
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, establ ...
, and
Emory University
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.
Books authored and edited
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[The subtitle used to be ''Developmental Function and Individual Differences'' for the previous editions]
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See also
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Evolutionary developmental psychology
Evolutionary developmental psychology (EDP) is a research paradigm that applies the basic principles of evolution by natural selection, to understand the development of human behavior and cognition. It involves the study of both the genetic and e ...
Notes
External links
Bjorklund's FAU Home Page*
1949 births
Living people
People from Worcester, Massachusetts
21st-century American psychologists
American developmental psychologists
Evolutionary psychologists
Florida Atlantic University faculty
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni
Academic journal editors
20th-century American psychologists
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