Biography:Theodore Wachs

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Short description: American psychologist
Theodore D. Wachs
Born (1941-02-06) February 6, 1941 (age 83)
Brooklyn, New York[1]
NationalityAmerican
EducationMuhlenberg College
Peabody College
AwardsGolestan Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study[1]
Muhlenberg College Alumni Achievement Award in Psychology – Child Development (2017)[2]
Scientific career
FieldsPsychology
InstitutionsPurdue University
ThesisFree-recall learning in children as a function of directional motivation orientation, intelligence, and chronological age (1968)

Theodore D. Wachs (born February 6, 1941)[3] is an American psychologist and professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Purdue University.[4] He has studied the effects of environmental factors, such as noise, on children's mental development.[5][6] He has also conducted research in the field of behavioral genetics.[4] Wachs was one of the founders of the Global Child Development Group in 2007.[7]

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