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Overview

Michael W. Pratt is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research spans the intersection of Psychology and Social Sciences with a focus on subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Social Psychology, and Clinical Psychology.

Their recent scholarly contributions have covered a diverse range of topics. These include:

  • Identity, Memory, and Therapy
  • Environmental Education and Sustainability
  • Aging and Gerontology Research
  • Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
  • Family Support in Illness
  • Youth Development and Social Support
  • Urban Green Space and Health

Michael W. Pratt has published research in several academic venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Developmental Psychology
  • Ageing and Society
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Journal of Environmental Psychology
  • Emerging Adulthood

Some of the recent papers they are associated with are:

  • Older age as a time to contribute: a scoping review of generativity in later life, 2021, Ageing and Society
  • Meaning in Life Mediates the Association between Environmental Engagement and Loneliness, 2021, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • The longitudinal influence of parenting and parents' traces on narrative identity in young adulthood, 2021, Developmental Psychology
  • The politics behind environmentalism: How political ideological development in emerging adulthood may play a role, 2020, Journal of Environmental Psychology
  • A longitudinal, mixed methods study exploring the impact of civic engagement on psychosocial outcomes across early to mid adulthood, 2024, Developmental Psychology

Michael W. Pratt has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Fanli Jia
  • M. Kyle Matsuba
  • Kendall Soucie
  • Feliciano Villar
  • Rodrigo Serrat

Best Publications

  • Life's little (and big) lessons: identity statuses and meaning-making in the turning point narratives of emerging adults.

    Kate C. McLean;Michael W. Pratt

  • The Importance of Friends Friendship and Adjustment Among 1st-Year University Students

    Vanessa M. Buote;S. Mark Pancer;Michael W. Pratt;Gerald Adams

  • Social Support: Relations to Coping and Adjustment During the Transition to University in the People’s Republic of China

    Sha Tao;Qi Dong;Michael W. Pratt;Bruce Hunsberger

  • Mothers and Fathers Teaching 3-Year-Olds: Authoritative Parenting and Adult Scaffolding of Young Children's Learning

    Michael W. Pratt;Patricia Kerig;Philip A. Cowan;Carolyn Pape Cowan

  • Cognitive Complexity of Expectations and Adjustment to University in the First Year

    S. Mark Pancer;Bruce Hunsberger;Michael W. Pratt;Susan Alisat

  • Community and political involvement in adolescence: What distinguishes the activists from the uninvolved?

    S. Mark Pancer;Michael Pratt;Bruce Hunsberger;Susan Alisat

  • A Longitudinal Analysis of Personal Values Socialization: Correlates of a Moral Self- Ideal in Late Adolescence

    Michael W. Pratt;Bruce Hunsberger;S. Mark Pancer;Susan Alisat

  • Family Stories and the Life Course: Across Time and Generations

    Michael W. Pratt;Barbara H. Fiese

  • Adolescent Generativity: A Longitudinal Study of Two Possible Contexts for Learning Concern for Future Generations

    Heather Lawford;Michael W. Pratt;Bruce Hunsberger;S. Mark Pancer

  • Thinking Ahead: Complexity of Expectations and the Transition to Parenthood

    S. Mark Pancer;Michael Pratt;Bruce Hunsberger;Margo Gallant

  • Sex Differences in Adult Moral Orientations

    Michael W. Pratt;Gail Golding;William Hunter;Rosemarle Sampson

  • The mathematical parent : parental scaffolding, parenting style, and learning outcomes in long-division mathematics homework

    Michael W. Pratt;David Green;Judith MacVicar;Marie Bountrogianni

  • Becoming a parent : The relation between prenatal expectations and postnatal experience

    Patricia Delmore-Ko;S. Mark Pancer;Bruce Hunsberger;Michael Pratt

  • Religious Fundamentalism and Religious Doubts: Content, Connections, and Complexity of Thinking

    Bruce Hunsberger;Susan Alisat;S. Mark Pancer;Michael Pratt

  • Great Expectations: The Relation Between Expectancies and Adjustment During the Transition to University1

    Lynne M. Jackson;S. Mark Pancer;Michael W. Pratt;Bruce E. Hunsberger

  • Community and religious involvement as contexts of identity change across late adolescence and emerging adulthood

    Sam A. Hardy;Michael W. Pratt;S. Mark Pancer;Joseph A. Olsen

  • Are environmental issues moral issues? Moral identity in relation to protecting the natural world

    Fanli Jia;Kendall Soucie;Susan Alisat;Daniel Curtin

  • Adolescent identity formation: Religious exploration and commitment.

    Bruce Hunsberger;Michael Pratt;S. Mark Pancer

  • Optimism as a Mediator of the Relation between Perceived Parental Authoritativeness and Adjustment among Adolescents: Finding the Sunny Side of the Street.

    Lynne M. Jackson;Michael W. Pratt;Bruce Hunsberger;S. Mark Pancer

  • Exploring similarities and differences between online and offline friendships: The role of attachment style

    Vanessa M. Buote;Eileen Wood;Michael Pratt

Frequent Co-Authors

Jari-Erik Nurmi
Jari-Erik Nurmi University of Jyväskylä
Shmuel Shulman
Shmuel Shulman Bar-Ilan University
Barbara H. Fiese
Barbara H. Fiese University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dan P. McAdams
Dan P. McAdams Northwestern University
Patricia K. Kerig
Patricia K. Kerig University of Utah
Philip A. Cowan
Philip A. Cowan University of California, Berkeley
Mary A. Luszcz
Mary A. Luszcz Flinders University
Carolyn Pape Cowan
Carolyn Pape Cowan University of California, Berkeley
Kate C. McLean
Kate C. McLean Western Washington University
Ellen Bouchard Ryan
Ellen Bouchard Ryan McMaster University

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