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David Bjorklund is an evolutionary developmental psychologist and Professor of Psychology at Florida Atlantic University.
Introduction
David Bjorklund was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1949. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in 1971 from the University of Massachusetts – Amherst. He continued his education by earning his Master of Arts from The University of Dayton in 1973. He earned his Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology in 1976 from the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill. After earning his Ph.D., Dr. Bjorklund joined the faculty of Florida Atlantic University. He has also served as a visiting professor at several prestigious institutions – including Emory University, The University of Georgia, James I University, and the Max Planck Institute for Psychological Research.
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His current research interests include children’s cognitive development and evolutionary developmental psychology. Over the past 40 years, Dr. Bjorklund has been awarded...
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Bjorklund, D. F. (Ed.). (1990). Children’s strategies: Contemporary views of cognitive development. Hillsdale: Erlbaum.
Bjorklund, D. F. (Ed.). (2000). False-memory creation in children and adults: Theory, research, and implications. Mahwah: Erlbaum.
Bjorklund, D. F. (2007). Why youth is not wasted on the young: Immaturity in human development. Malden: Blackwell.
Bjorklund, D. F. (2012). Children’s thinking: Cognitive development and individual differences (5th ed.). Belmont: Wadsworth.
Bjorklund, D. F., & Bjorklund, B. R. (1992). Looking at children: An introduction to child development. Pacific Grove: Brooks/Cole.
Bjorklund, D. F., & Hernández Blasi, C. (2012). Child and adolescent development: An integrative approach. Belmont: Wadsworth.
Bjorklund, D. F., & Pellegrini, A. D. (2002). The origins of human nature: Evolutionary developmental psychology. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Ellis, B. J., & Bjorklund, D. F. (Eds.). (2005). Origins of the social mind: Evolutionary psychology and child development. New York: Guilford.
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Fitzgerald, C. (2019). David F. Bjorklund. In: Shackelford, T., Weekes-Shackelford, V. (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_2387-1
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