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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1975 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Willard W. Hartup is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with particular attention to clinical psychology and social psychology subfields.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

  • Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Family and Disability Support Research

Hartup has contributed to the literature with publications that explore developmental and social psychological aspects of relationships. A notable recent paper is "Friendships and their Developmental Significance," published in 2022 within the venue Psychology Press eBooks.

  • Friendships and their Developmental Significance, 2022, Psychology Press eBooks

Their frequent publication venues include:

  • Psychology Press eBooks

Throughout the career, Hartup has not been documented to have frequent co-authors in the available data. Additionally, book publications are not listed under their profile.

In 1975, Hartup was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Best Publications

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

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

  • THE COMPANY THEY KEEP : FRIENDSHIPS AND THEIR DEVELOPMENTAL SIGNIFICANCE

    W. W. Hartup

  • The Company They Keep: Friendships and Their Developmental Significance

    Willard W. Hartup

  • Friendships and adaptation in the life course.

    Willard W. Hartup;Nan Stevens

  • The Company They Keep: Friendship in Childhood and Adolescence.

    William M. Bukowski;Andrew F. Newcomb;Willard W. Hartup

  • Social relationships and their developmental significance.

    Willard W. Hartup

  • The development of romantic relationships in adolescence

    Wyndol Furman;B. Bradford (Benson Bradford) Brown;Candice Feiring

  • Relationships and Development

    W. W. Hartup;Z. Rubin

  • Friendships and Adaptation Across the Life Span

    Willard W. Hartup;Nan Stevens

  • Developmental origins of aggression

    Richard Ernest Tremblay;Willard W. Hartup;John Archer

  • Peer experience: Common and unique features of number of friendships, social network centrality, and sociometric status

    Scott D. Gest;Sandra A. Graham-Bermann;Willard W. Hartup

  • Conflict and the friendship relations of young children

    Willard W. Hartup;Brett Laursen;Mark I. Stewart;Amy Eastenson

  • Conflict in child and adolescent development

    Carolyn Uhlinger Shantz;Willard W. Hartup

  • Adolescents and their friends.

    Willard W. Hartup

  • Heterogeneity among Peer-Rejected Boys: Subtypes and Stabilities.

    Antonius H. N. Cillessen;Hendrik W. van IJzendoorn;Cornelis F. M. van Lieshout;Willard W. Hartup

  • Aggression in childhood. Developmental perspectives.

    Willard W. Hartup

  • Peer reinforcement and sociometric status.

    Willard W. Hartup;Jane A. Glazer;Rosalind Charlesworth

  • The Social Worlds of Childhood.

    Willard W. Hartup

  • Similarities between Friends and Nonfriends in Middle Childhood

    Gerbert J. T. Haselager;Willard W. Hartup;Cornells F. M. van Lieshout;J. Marianne A. Riksen-Walraven

  • Rehabilitation of socially withdrawn preschool children through mixed-age and same-age socialization

    Wyndol Furman;Donald F. Rahe;Willard W. Hartup

  • Relationships as developmental contexts

    W. Andrew Collins;Brett Paul Laursen;Willard W. Hartup

  • Conflict and friendship relations in middle childhood: behavior in a closed-field situation.

    Willard W. Hartup;Doran C. French;Brett Laursen;Mary Kathleen Johnston

  • Positive social reinforecement in the nursery school peer group.

    Rosalind Charlesworth;Willard W. Hartup

  • Conflict and the Friendship Relations of Young Children

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  • Friendships and their developmental significance.

    Willard W. Hartup

  • The origins of reciprocity and social exchange in friendships.

    Brett Laursen;Willard W. Hartup

Frequent Co-Authors

Brett Laursen
Brett Laursen Florida Atlantic University
Ron H. J. Scholte
Ron H. J. Scholte Radboud University
Antonius H. N. Cillessen
Antonius H. N. Cillessen Radboud University
Doran C. French
Doran C. French Purdue University West Lafayette
W. Andrew Collins
W. Andrew Collins University of Minnesota
Wyndol Furman
Wyndol Furman University of Denver
Celia A. Brownell
Celia A. Brownell University of Pittsburgh
Scott D. Gest
Scott D. Gest University of Virginia
Megan R. Gunnar
Megan R. Gunnar University of Minnesota

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