Vonnie Cile McLoyd is an American

developmental psychologist Developmental psychology is the scientific study of how and why humans grow, change, and adapt across the course of their lives. Originally concerned with infants and children, the field has expanded to include adolescence, adult developmen ...

known for her research on how poverty, parental job loss,

unemployment Unemployment, according to the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development), is people above a specified age (usually 15) not being in paid employment or self-employment but currently available for work during the refere ...

, and work characteristics affect children's

social emotional development Social emotional development represents a specific domain of child development. It is a gradual, integrative process through which children acquire the capacity to understand, experience, express, and manage emotions and to develop meaningful relat ...

. She is the Ewart A. C. Thomas Collegiate Professor of Psychology at the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

. McLoyd was a 1996 recipient of a

MacArthur Fellowship The MacArthur Fellows Program, also known as the MacArthur Fellowship and commonly but unofficially known as the "Genius Grant", is a prize awarded annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation typically to between 20 and 30 indi ...

, in recognition of her work on the "interactive influences of race, ethnicity, family, and economic hardship on human development."

Life

McLoyd completed her undergraduate degree at

Talladega College Talladega College is a private historically black college in Talladega, Alabama. It is Alabama's oldest private historically black college and offers 17 degree programs. It is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. His ...

(1971) and her M.A. (1973) and Ph.D. (1975) at the

. Her dissertation titled ''The Effects of Verbal Reinforcement and Induced Perceptions of Causality on Intrinsic Motivation'' was supervised by Joseph Veroff. McLoyd joined the faculty at the University of Michigan in 1978. From 2002–2010, she was faculty at

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, th ...

before returning to University of Michigan. She was associate editor of the journals ''

Child Development Child development involves the Human development (biology), biological, developmental psychology, psychological and emotional changes that occur in human beings between birth and the conclusion of adolescence. Childhood is divided into 3 stages o ...

''(1993-1996) and ''

American Psychologist ''American Psychologist'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by the American Psychological Association. The journal publishes articles of broad interest to psychologists, including empirical reports and scholarly reviews covering scien ...

'' (2006-2016).

Works

* * * *

References

External links

Faculty homepage
at the University of Michigan
Vonnie C. McLoyd
publications indexed by

Google Scholar Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines. Released in beta in November 2004, the Google Scholar index includes ...

{{DEFAULTSORT:McLoyd, Vonnie Year of birth missing (living people) Living people MacArthur Fellows 21st-century American psychologists Talladega College alumni University of Michigan alumni University of Massachusetts faculty University of Michigan faculty University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty