Mary Klevjord Rothbart

Conceptual description of how individuals differ in infancy and early childhood, development of appropriate measures and her efforts to tie individual differences to the efficiency of underlying neural networks and genetic polymorphisms made a substantial advance in understanding of human individuality. Books, Attention in Early Development (1996), with H. A. Ruff, Educating the Human Brain (2007), with M. I. Posner, and Becoming Who We Are (2011) provided developmental psychologists, educators, and the public, a description of current understanding of temperament and what it means to child rearing and education. Recognition includes elected member of the Governing Council, Society for Research in Child Development, 1999-2005, Senior Scientist Award and MERIT Award from National Institute of Mental Health.