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D-Index
50
Citations
28145
World Ranking
5313
National Ranking
2904

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2008 - Fellow of the American Educational Research Association

Overview

William Damon is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Psychology and Social Sciences, with particular attention to Social Psychology and Applied Psychology. Other subfields include Sociology and Political Science, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Health.

Their work addresses several main topics, among which are:

  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
  • Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
  • Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research
  • Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
  • Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
  • Family Business Performance and Succession
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions

William Damon has published in various venues, with frequent contributions found in:

  • Human Development
  • Review of General Psychology
  • The Journal of Positive Psychology
  • Applied Developmental Science
  • New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by William Damon include:

  • "The Psychology of Purpose: A Comprehensive Approach," 2025, Review of General Psychology
  • "Purpose development in the context of higher education," 2024, Applied Developmental Science
  • "Family purpose: an empirical investigation of collective purpose," 2023, The Journal of Positive Psychology (co-authored by Kendall Cotton Bronk)
  • "What Makes a Purpose "Worth Having"?", 2021, Human Development (co-authored by Kendall Cotton Bronk)
  • "Scientific and Ethical Mandates in the Study of Purpose," 2022, Human Development (co-authored by Kendall Cotton Bronk)

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Anne Colby
  • Kendall Cotton Bronk
  • Heinrich Liechtenstein
  • Tarek Josef el Sehity
  • Caleb Mitchell

William Damon also has book publications, including a work published by eBooks titled : (2020).

Among their recognitions, William Damon was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2014 and a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association in 2008.

Best Publications

  • Handbook of Child Psychology

    William Damon

  • The Development of Purpose During Adolescence

    William Damon;Jenni Menon;Kendall Cotton Bronk

  • Self-understanding in childhood and adolescence

    William Damon;Daniel Hart

  • Theoretical models of human development

    Richard M. Lerner;William Damon

  • The development of self-understanding from infancy through adolescence.

    William Damon;Daniel Hart

  • What is Positive Youth Development

    William Damon

  • The social world of the child

    William Damon

  • Some Do Care: Contemporary Lives of Moral Commitment

    Anne Colby;William Damon

  • Good Work: When Excellence and Ethics Meet

    Howard Gardner;Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi;William Damon

  • Peer education: The untapped potential

    William Damon

  • Critical distinctions among three approaches to peer education

    William Damon;Erin Phelps

  • Child Development Today and Tomorrow

    William Damon

  • Peer interaction and the process of change in children's moral reasoning.

    William Damon;Melanie Killen

  • The Path to Purpose: How Young People Find Their Calling in Life

    William Damon

  • The moral child : nurturing children's natural moral growth

    William Damon

  • Early Conceptions of Positive Justice as Related to the Development of Logical Operations.

    William Damon

  • Problem solving with equals: Peer collaboration as a context for learning mathematics and spatial concepts.

    Erin Phelps;William Damon

  • Self-understanding and its role in social and moral development.

    William Damon;Daniel Hart

  • Child and adolescent development : an advanced course

    William Damon;Richard M. Lerner

  • Thriving across the Life Span

    Matthew J. Bundick;David S. Yeager;Pamela Ebstyne King;William Damon

  • Handbook of child psychology: Theoretical models of human development, Vol. 1, 6th ed.

    Richard M. Lerner;William Damon

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard M. Lerner
Richard M. Lerner Tufts University
G. John Geldhof
G. John Geldhof Oregon State University
Nancy Eisenberg
Nancy Eisenberg Arizona State University
Howard Gardner
Howard Gardner Harvard University
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Claremont Graduate University
Deanna Kuhn
Deanna Kuhn Columbia University
Jane E. Gillham
Jane E. Gillham Swarthmore College
Martin E. P. Seligman
Martin E. P. Seligman University of Pennsylvania
Anne Gregory
Anne Gregory Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Rainer K. Silbereisen
Rainer K. Silbereisen Friedrich Schiller University Jena

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