Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

4-25-2025

Keywords

childhood development, David F. Bjorklund, developmental psychology

Disciplines

Developmental Psychology

Abstract

David F. Bjorklund is an eminent scholar in the field of developmental psychology.  He was born on June 13, 1949 in Worcester, Massachusetts.  He received his bachelor’s degree cum laude in psychology from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1971.  His graduate degrees include a master’s in psychology from the University of Dayton in 1973 and a doctorate in developmental psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1976, as well as a Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2002.  He received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Bern, Switzerland in 2015.  Bjorklund is currently a Professor of Psychology at Florida Atlantic University where he has taught graduate and undergraduate courses and conducted research for over 40 years.  In addition to other honors, he received an Alexander von Humboldt Research Award and served as a Research Professor at the University of Würzburg, Germany.  Bjorklund has also been a Visiting Professor/Fellow at the Max-Plank-Institute for Psychological Research in Germany, James I University in Spain, the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, and at the University of Georgia and Emory University in the United States.  He has authored several textbooks, including Psychology (with Peter Gray), Looking at Children: An Introduction to Child Development (with Barbara Bjorklund), Applied Child Study: A Developmental Approach (with Anthony Pellegrini), Child and Adolescent Development (with Carlos Hernández Blasi), and is best known for Children’s Thinking: Cognitive Development and Individual Differences (with Kayla Causey), now in its sixth edition, which is widely used in university courses on Cognitive Development.  Bjorklund has served on the editorial boards of numerous journals, including Developmental Review, Developmental Psychology, Evolutionary Psychology, the Journal of Cognition and Development, and as a contributing editor to Parents magazine.  He served as Associate Editor for Child Development from 1997 to 2001 and for the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology (JECP) from 2005 to 2006.  He has served as Editor of JECP since 2007.

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