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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1980 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Patricia M. Greenfield is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research spans primarily the fields of psychology and social sciences, with notable work in social psychology, education, clinical psychology, sociology, political science, and developmental and educational psychology.

Their research topics focus largely on cultural differences and values, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, early childhood education and development, death anxiety and social exclusion, psychological well-being and life satisfaction, child development and digital technology, as well as the impact of technology on adolescents.

Frequent publication venues for Patricia M. Greenfield include:

  • Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies
  • Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology
  • Applied Developmental Science
  • Journal of Intelligence
  • Frontiers in Psychology

Recent papers from Patricia M. Greenfield and collaborators cover various aspects of social and psychological phenomena, such as:

  • Staying connected during stay-at-home: Communication with family and friends and its association with well-being, 2021, Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies
  • COVID-19 shifts mortality salience, activities, and values in the United States: Big data analysis of online adaptation, 2021, Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies
  • Shifts in ecology, behavior, values, and relationships during the coronavirus pandemic: Survival threat, subsistence activities, conservation of resources, and interdependent families, 2021, Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology
  • Home-School Cultural Value Mismatch: Antecedents and Consequences in a Multi-Ethnic Sample Transitioning to College, 2021, Frontiers in Psychology
  • Social change, cultural evolution, weaving apprenticeship, and development: informal education across three generations and 42 years in a Maya community, 2023, Applied Developmental Science

Among frequent co-authors collaborating with Patricia M. Greenfield are Michael Weinstock, Yolanda Vasquez-Salgado, Genavee Brown, Noah F. G. Evers, and Xiaolan Fu.

The scientist has received recognition as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1980 and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2014.

Best Publications

  • Online Communication and Adolescent Relationships

    Kaveri Subrahmanyam;Patricia Greenfield

  • Studies in cognitive growth

    Jerome S. Bruner;Rose R. Olver;Patricia M. Greenfield

  • Cultural Pathways Through Universal Development

    Patricia M. Greenfield;Heidi Keller;Andrew Fuligni;Ashley Maynard

  • The structure of communication in early language development

    Patricia Marks. Greenfield;Joshua H. Smith

  • Self-Presentation and Gender on MySpace.

    Adriana M. Manago;Michael B. Graham;Patricia M. Greenfield;Goldie Salimkhan

  • Mind and Media: The Effects of Television, Video Games, and Computers

    Patricia Marks Greenfield

  • Language, tools and brain: The ontogeny and phylogeny of hierarchically organized sequential behavior

    Patricia M. Greenfield

  • The impact of computer use on children's and adolescents' development

    Kaveri Subrahmanyam;Patricia Greenfield;Robert Kraut;Elisheva Gross

  • Me and my 400 friends: the anatomy of college students' Facebook networks, their communication patterns, and well-being.

    Adriana M. Manago;Tamara Taylor;Patricia M. Greenfield

  • The Impact of Home Computer Use on Children's Activities and Development

    Kaveri Subrahmanyam;Robert E. Kraut;Patricia M. Greenfield;Elisheva F. Gross

  • A theory of the teacher in the learning activities of everyday life.

    Patricia Marks Greenfield

  • Linking Social Change and Developmental Change: Shifting Pathways of Human Development.

    Patricia M. Greenfield

  • You can't take it with you: Why ability assessments don't cross cultures.

    Patricia M. Greenfield

  • Effect of video game practice on spatial skills in girls and boys

    Kaveri Subrahmanyam;Patricia M. Greenfield

  • Culture and Cognitive Growth

    Patricia Marks Greenfield;Jerome S. Bruner

  • The Power of the Like in Adolescence: Effects of Peer Influence on Neural and Behavioral Responses to Social Media

    Lauren E. Sherman;Ashley A. Payton;Leanna M. Hernandez;Patricia M. Greenfield

  • Technology and informal education: what is taught, what is learned.

    Patricia M. Greenfield

  • Connecting Developmental Constructions to the Internet: Identity Presentation and Sexual Exploration in Online Teen Chat Rooms

    Kaveri Subrahmanyam;David Smahel;Patricia Greenfield

  • Independence and Interdependence as Developmental Scripts: Implications for Theory, Research, and Practice

    Patricia M. Greenfield

  • Cross-cultural Roots of Minority Child Development

    Patricia Marks Greenfield;Rodney R. Cocking

  • Language, tools, and brain revisited

    Patricia M. Greenfield

Frequent Co-Authors

Kaveri Subrahmanyam
Kaveri Subrahmanyam California State University Los Angeles
E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh
E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh Iowa Primate Learning Sanctuary
Jerome S. Bruner
Jerome S. Bruner New York University
Heidi Keller
Heidi Keller Osnabrück University
William D. Hopkins
William D. Hopkins University of Wisconsin–Madison
Michael Cole
Michael Cole University of East London
Howard Gardner
Howard Gardner Harvard University
David R. Olson
David R. Olson University of Toronto
Mirella Dapretto
Mirella Dapretto University of California, Los Angeles
Andrew J. Fuligni
Andrew J. Fuligni University of California, Los Angeles

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