Eleanor Emmons Maccoby

Eleanor E. Maccoby is the Barbara Kimball Browning Professor Emerita of Psychology at Stanford University. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and Institute of Medicine of the NAS. Maccoby's primary interests have been in the development of children's behavior, particularly as it relates to family functioning and parental child rearing methods. Her specific research and writing topics have addressed child rearing, perceptual work on selective listening, sex differences, and divorce, and her articles and books have had a broad impact on the field. She has served as president of the Consortium of Social Science Associations (1997-99) and the Society for Research in Child Development (1981-83).