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Laurence Steinberg

Laurence Steinberg

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Psychology
USA
2026

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Psychology

D-Index
143
Citations
131472
World Ranking
99
National Ranking
57

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in United States Leader Award
  • 2013 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Laurence Steinberg is affiliated with Temple University in the United States and has an extensive research portfolio primarily within the fields of psychology and social sciences. Their work spans several key subfields, including clinical psychology, social psychology, sociology and political science, education, and safety research.

Their research focuses on topics related to child and adolescent development, with particular attention to psychosocial and emotional growth, early childhood education, and development. Other primary topics covered in their work include crime patterns and interventions, attachment and relationship dynamics, psychopathy, forensic psychiatry, sexual offending, child abuse and trauma, and youth development and social support.

Notable recent publications by Laurence Steinberg include:

  • Effects of Parental Warmth and Behavioral Control on Adolescent Externalizing and Internalizing Trajectories Across Cultures, 2020, Journal of Research on Adolescence
  • Effects of Parental Acceptance-Rejection on Children's Internalizing and Externalizing Behaviors: A Longitudinal, Multicultural Study, 2021, Journal of Child and Family Studies
  • Differential Correlates of Positive and Negative Risk Taking in Adolescence, 2020, Journal of Youth and Adolescence
  • Students Attending School Remotely Suffer Socially, Emotionally, and Academically, 2021, Educational Researcher
  • Longitudinal associations between mothers' and fathers' anger/irritability expressiveness, harsh parenting, and adolescents' socioemotional functioning in nine countries, 2020, Developmental Psychology

Laurence Steinberg frequently publishes in several academic journals, demonstrating consistent contributions to the field. Among these journals are:

  • Journal of Research on Adolescence
  • Journal of Youth and Adolescence
  • Development and Psychopathology
  • CrimRxiv
  • Developmental Psychology

The scientist collaborates often with a range of coauthors, including Kirby Deater-Deckard, Kenneth A. Dodge, Paul J. Frick, Jennifer E. Lansford, and Marc H. Bornstein, reflecting a network of research partnerships across related fields.

Laurence Steinberg has been recognized with fellowship status by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an award received in 2013.

Best Publications

  • Parenting Style as Context: An Integrative Model

    Nancy Darling;Laurence Steinberg

  • A Social Neuroscience Perspective on Adolescent Risk-Taking.

    Laurence Steinberg

  • Patterns of Competence and Adjustment among Adolescents from Authoritative, Authoritarian, Indulgent, and Neglectful Families

    Susie D. Lamborn;Nina S. Mounts;Laurence Steinberg;Sanford M. Dornbusch

  • The Role of the Family Context in the Development of Emotion Regulation

    Amanda Sheffield Morris;Jennifer S. Silk;Laurence Steinberg;Sonya S. Myers

  • Cognitive and affective development in adolescence

    Laurence Steinberg

  • We Know Some Things: Parent-Adolescent Relationships in Retrospect and Prospect.

    Laurence Steinberg

  • Impact of parenting practices on adolescent achievement: authoritative parenting, school involvement, and encouragement to succeed.

    Laurence Steinberg;Susie D. Lamborn;Sanford M. Dornbusch;Nancy Darling

  • Childhood Experience, Interpersonal Development, and Reproductive Strategy: An Evolutionary Theory of Socialization.

    Jay Belsky;Laurence Steinberg;Patricia Draper

  • Peer influence on risk taking, risk preference, and risky decision making in adolescence and adulthood: an experimental study.

    Margo Gardner;Laurence Steinberg

  • Contemporary research on parenting: The case for nature and nurture.

    W. Andrew Collins;Eleanor E. Maccoby;Laurence Steinberg;E. Mavis Hetherington

  • The vicissitudes of autonomy in early adolescence.

    Laurence Steinberg;Susan B. Silverberg

  • Over-time changes in adjustment and competence among adolescents from authoritative, authoritarian, indulgent, and neglectful families

    Laurence Steinberg;Susie D. Lamborn;Nancy Darling;Nina S. Mounts

  • Ethnic differences in adolescent achievement: An ecological perspective.

    Laurence Steinberg;Sanford M. Dornbusch;B. Bradford Brown

  • Authoritative parenting, psychosocial maturity, and academic success among adolescents.

    Laurence Steinberg;Julie D. Elmen;Nina S. Mounts

  • Handbook of adolescent psychology

    Richard M. Lerner;Laurence D. Steinberg

  • Risk Taking in Adolescence New Perspectives From Brain and Behavioral Science

    Laurence Steinberg

  • Age Differences in Resistance to Peer Influence

    Laurence Steinberg;Kathryn C. Monahan

  • Autonomy, conflict, and harmony in the family relationship.

    Laurence Steinberg

  • Age differences in sensation seeking and impulsivity as indexed by behavior and self-report: evidence for a dual systems model.

    Laurence Steinberg;Dustin Albert;Elizabeth Cauffman;Marie Banich

  • Adolescents' emotion regulation in daily life: links to depressive symptoms and problem behavior.

    Jennifer S. Silk;Laurence Steinberg;and Amanda Sheffield Morris

Frequent Co-Authors

Elizabeth Cauffman
Elizabeth Cauffman University of California, Irvine
Paul J. Frick
Paul J. Frick Louisiana State University
Suha M. Al-Hassan
Suha M. Al-Hassan Abu Dhabi Early Childhood Authority
Kenneth A. Dodge
Kenneth A. Dodge Duke University
Jason Chein
Jason Chein Temple University
Jennifer E. Lansford
Jennifer E. Lansford Duke University
Marc H. Bornstein
Marc H. Bornstein National Institutes of Health
Ann T. Skinner
Ann T. Skinner Duke University
Concetta Pastorelli
Concetta Pastorelli Sapienza University of Rome
Sombat Tapanya
Sombat Tapanya Chiang Mai University

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