Laurence Steinberg Biography

Laurence Steinberg Ph.D. is the Distinguished University Professor and Laura H. Carnell Professor of Psychology at Temple University. He received his A.B. in Psychology from Vassar College and his Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from Cornell University. Dr. Steinberg is a former President of the Division of Developmental Psychology of the American Psychological Association and of the Society for Research on Adolescence former Director of the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Adolescent Development and Juvenile Justice and a member of the MacArthur Foundation’s Research Network on Law and Neuroscience. An internationally recognized expert on psychological development during adolescence Dr. Steinberg’s research has focused on a range of topics in the study of contemporary adolescence including adolescent brain development risk-taking and decision-making parent-adolescent relationships school-year employment high school reform and juvenile justice. He served as a member of the National Academies’ Board on Children Youth and Families and chaired the Academies’ Committee on the Science of Adolescence. Dr. Steinberg was the lead scientist in the preparation of the American Psychological Association’s amicus briefs submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court in Roper v. Simmons which abolished the juvenile death penalty; Graham v. Florida which banned the use of life without parole for juveniles convicted of non-homicide crimes; and Miller v. Alabama which prohibited the use of mandatory life without parole for all juvenile crimes.

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