Weiss Hall

Temple University

Philadelphia, PA 19122

Phone: 215-204-7485

Fax: 215-204-5539

Laurence Steinberg, Ph.D., is the Laura H. Carnell Professor of Psychology at Temple University. Dr. Steinberg has taught previously at Cornell University, the University of California at Irvine, and the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He was educated at Vassar College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and graduated with honors and distinction in psychology in 1974; and at Cornell University, where he received his Ph.D. in human development and family studies in 1977.

Dr. Steinberg is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, has been a Faculty Scholar of the William T. Grant Foundation, and is currently Director of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Adolescent Development and Juvenile Justice, and a member of the MacArthur Foundation’s Research Network on Psychopathology and Development. Dr. Steinberg is President of the Society for Research on Adolescence, the major professional organization of social and behavioral scientists interested in adolescent growth and development. He served on the National Research Council’s Panel on Health and Safety Implications of Child Labor, which produced the book, Protecting Youth at Work.

A nationally recognized expert on adolescent psychological development, parent-adolescent relations, and adolescent employment, Dr. Steinberg is the author, co-author, or editor of more than 150 scholarly articles on growth and development during the teenage years, as well as the books You and Your Adolescent: A Parent’s Guide for Ages 10 to 20; Adolescence, the leading college textbook on adolescent development, now in its fifth edition; When Teenagers Work: The Psychological and Social Costs of Adolescent Employment; Crossing Paths: How Your Child’s Adolescence Triggers Your Own Crisis; Beyond the Classroom: Why School Reform Has Failed and What Parents Need to Do; and Studying Minority Adolescents: Conceptual, Methodological, and Theoretical Issues.